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unthrone

American  
[uhn-throhn] / ʌnˈθroʊn /

verb (used with object)

unthroned, unthroning
  1. to dethrone or remove as if by dethroning.


unthrone British  
/ ʌnˈθrəʊn /

verb

  1. (tr) a less common word for dethrone

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of unthrone

First recorded in 1605–15; un- 2 + throne

Example Sentences

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Something must be done to unthrone these wretches, or things will be worse and worse.

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William

Yet no new sufferings can prepare A higher praise to crown thee;10 Though my first death proclaim thee fair, My second will unthrone thee.

From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Stanley, Thomas

Yet no new sufferings can prepare   A higher praise to crown thee; Though my first death proclaim thee fair,   My second will unthrone thee.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Him to unthrone we then May hope, when everlasting Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

But once he was unthroned by Buster Douglas in a humiliating upset early last year, Tyson was not only revealed as mortal but also held to mortals' rules.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today unthroned royalty from other lands are a franc a dozen in the haunts of Paris' international set.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cried the African monarch, the splendid, As down to his death in the hollow Dark dungeons of Rome he descended, Uncrowned, unthroned, unattended; How cold are thy baths, Apollo!

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland

The master of men and emergencies was unthroned for one time in life.

From The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 by Smith, Z. F. (Zachariah Frederick)

There is ice at both poles, north and south—all extremes are the same—misery belongs to the highest and the lowest only,—to the emperor and Pg 24the beggar, when unsixpenced and unthroned.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

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