rethronev.
/ˌriːˈθrəʊn/, U.S. /riˈθroʊn/ transitive. To enthrone again; to replace on the throne. Also (now chiefly) figurative and in extended use: to return to a position of importance or prominence.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > appoint a person to an office [verb (transitive)] > admit to office formally or ceremonially > enthrone > again
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1702 tr. Grand Affairs of Europe 5 You saw what a bustle there was to Re-throne him.
1789 J. Byng Diary 24 June in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 87 Reason..Re-throned full liberty by a gen'ral choice.
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 7 482 The attempt to rethrone the princes of the house of Stuart.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 108 Truth shall reign, Nature shall be rethroned, and man sublimed.
1883 Gentleman's Mag. 255 359 The magnificent presence and kingly voice of the lion would always suffice to rethrone it as often as it was deposed.
1903 T. Hardy Dynasts (1904) i. v. 46 Unbind the galled republic of the Dutch, Rethrone in Piedmont the Sardinian King.
1939 Internat. Affairs 18 712 The public ear could not be revolutionised to mere cacophany [sic]and through the box-office gradually succeeded in re-throning the classical favourites on the programmes.
2006 A. Silver Minstrelsy & Murder ii. 84 The threat to southern patriarchy has been exiled, the patriarch once more rethroned, and female power defeated.
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reˈthroned adj.
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1839 S. Wilkinson Hist. Reveries 43 The re-throned Stuart's princely race Had bent to the adverse wind.
1902 A. E. W. Mason Four Feathers viii, in Cornhill Mag. Mar. 423 In the end, Harry would come back to all that he once had owned, like a rethroned king.
1991 N. Shumway Invention of Argentina (1993) iii. 72 An unnamed gaucho responds to a manifesto from the once deposed and now rethroned King Ferdinand VII.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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