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dethronement|dɪˈθrəʊnmənt|
[f. prec. vb. + -ment: cf. mod.F. détrônement.]
The action of dethroning, or fact of being dethroned; deposition from kingly authority.
1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4365/1 The News..of the Dethronement of the Grand Signior. 1820Keats Hyperion ii. 315 In midst of this dethronement horrible. 1849H. Rogers Ess. (1860) III. 179 The boasted prerogative of Reason is also that of a limited monarch; and its attempt to make itself absolute can only end in its own dethronement. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxvi. X. 66 The frequent dethronements and assassinations of Kings. |