dethronev.
/dɪˈθrəʊn/ a. transitive. To remove from the throne; to deprive of royal or sovereign authority and dignity; to depose (a ruling prince).
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society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)] > depose a sovereign > dethrone
disthronize1583
disthrone1603
disenthrone1608
dethrone1609
unthrone1611
dethronize1656
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 153 Authoritie to de-Throan and de-Crowne Princes.
1613 W. Drummond Teares Death Meliades And let them doe their worst, since thou art gone; Raise whome they list to Thrones, enthron'd dethrone.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 43 The question of dethroning, or, if these gentlemen like the phrase better, ‘cashiering’, kings.
1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. 121 That Artaxerxes whom Cyrus attempted to dethrone.
b. transferred and figurative.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > degrade [verb (transitive)]
vile1297
supplanta1382
to bring lowa1387
revilea1393
gradea1400
villain1412
abject?a1439
to-gradea1440
vilifyc1450
villainy1483
disparage1496
degradea1500
deject?1521
disgraduate1528
disgress1528
regrade1534
base1538
diminute1575
lessen1579
to turn down1581
to pitch (a person) over the bar?1593
disesteem1594
degender1596
unnoble1598
disrank1599
reduce1599
couch1602
disthrone1603
displume1606
unplume1621
disnoble1622
disworth?1623
villainize1623
unglory1626
ungraduate1633
disennoble1645
vilicate1646
degraduate1649
bemean1651
deplume1651
lower1653
cheapen1654
dethrone1659
diminish1667
scoundrel1701
sink1706
demean1715
abjectate1731
unglorifya1740
unmagnify1747
undignify1768
to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819
dishero1838
misdemean1843
downgrade1892
demote1919
objectify1973
1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 43 Love by dethroning Reason..doth kill the Man.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. lxi. 319 That republicans being dethroned by Cromwell.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxvii. 220 Dethrone the sin that would rule over your frail nature.
Derivatives
deˈthroned adj.
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society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [adjective] > deposed as monarch > deposed from a throne
thronelessa1639
dethroned1705
1705 J. Philips Bleinheim 2 His dethron'd Compeers.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 136 Compensations for dethroned princes.
deˈthroning n.
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society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [noun] > dethroning
dethronization1611
dethroning1649
disenthroning1649
unthroning1653
dethronement1707
disthronement1883
disenthronement1894
1649 Substance of Speech in Commons by W. Prynn 4 Dec. 1648 75 By a speedy publique dethroning and decolling of the King..as the Army-Remonstrants advise.
1892 Athenæum 27 Aug. 299/1 The story..is that Nero's wife Poppæa..is the head of a plot for her husband's dethroning and slaughter.
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