discrownv.
/dᵻˈskraʊn/, U.S. /dᵻˈskraʊn/ transitive. To deprive of a crown. Chiefly figurative: to deprive of power; to depose; to humble.
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society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)] > depose a sovereign > uncrown
uncrowna1400
discrown1586
decrown1609
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iii. xvi. 68 The one restored..The other..dis-crowned.
1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 261 He discrownes not the body, who crowns the soule.
1663 T. Jordan Royal Arbor Loyal Poesie To Rdr. sig. A3v Poets and Poetry (which the best ages formerly had in an exalted Estimation) are, in these loose latter times so discrowned and discouraged.
1681 W. Lawrence Right of Primogeniture i. 21 (margin) Ralph of Canterbury refuseth to Crown Adeliza Queen, unless he should first discrown the King.
1774 Public Ledger 4 May They saw the necessity of discrowning a Monarch, who though sworn to protect, was busied only in tearing up their chartered rights by the roots.
1803 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 14 54 On the shorn hair discrown'd of bridal flow'rs, Weeping lies scorn'd and trampled Liberty.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiv. 284 To crown or discrown its monarchs.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 13 Discrowning sovereign reason to be the serving drudge of superstition or social usage.
1911 Indianapolis Sunday Star 11 June (Gen. news section) 8/5 ‘A lawyer's honor is his crown, and no hand but his own can ever discrown him,’ declared the Governor.
2005 University Wire (Nexis) 4 Apr. Whether or not Lee deserved to be discrowned is a moot point.
Derivatives
disˈcrowned adj.
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society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [adjective] > deposed as monarch > deprived of crown
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1677 Bp. G. Burnet Mem. Dukes of Hamilton vi. 381 The fiercest Furies, that do daily tread Upon my Grief, my Gray Dis-crowned Head, Are those that owe my Bounty for their Bread.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. vii. 273 A worn discrowned Widow.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage xviii. 353 The discrowned queen of the seas.
1922 C. Cestre Ideals of France v. 252 Life was stunted and discrowned.
1982 C. Bernheimer Flaubert & Kafka ii. 126 The discrowned king is ridiculed and beaten after being stripped of his regal vestments.
disˈcrowning n.
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society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [noun] > uncrowning
uncrowning1611
decrowning1615
discrowning1823
1823 Monthly Repos. Jan. 26/1 It might have saved one from decapitation, another from discrowning, and all four from indelible historic infamy.
1866 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Sept. 2/1 The successive contemporary discrownings.
1993 J. I. Suárez Carnival Stage ii. 64 The ritual of discrowning concludes the coronation and is inseparable from it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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