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decoronation

noun

Etymology

From decoronate + -ion. Compare corona (“crown (of a tooth)”).

  1. derived from corōnātus
  2. inherited from coronat
  3. prefixed as decoronate — “de + coronate”
  4. formed as decoronation — “decoronate + -ion”

Definitions

  1. The removal of the crown of an ankylosed tooth while leaving the roots untouched.

  2. The deprivation of a crown

    The deprivation of a crown; the deprivation of the status of monarch or of authority.

    • Near-synonym: accession
    • This explains why there has been a constant stream of posthumous decoronations of Russian dictators: de-Ivanization followed the reign of Ivan the Terrible, de-Petrinization that of Peter 1, de-Nicholization that of Nicholas I and so on.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for decoronation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA