dethrone

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To depose

   To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.

   • […] he (the said Pope) doth not onely claime to be spirituall head of all Christians, but also to haue an Imperiall Ciuill power ouer all Kings and Emperours, dethroning and decrowning princes with his foote, as pleaseth him […]
   • Thou, Goddess-Mother, with our Sire comply, Nor break the sacred Union of the Sky: Lest, rouz’d to Rage, he shake the blest Abodes, Launch the red Lightning, and dethrone the Gods.
2. 2

   To remove any governing authority from power.

   • […] demands by Sakharov and others for further change—notably the dethroning of the increasingly discredited Party from its privileged position—could not be swept aside […]
3. 3

   To remove from any position of high status or power.

   • “[…] I’m a dethroned elder child, remember. My temper isn’t so damned long as you sometimes think!”
   • My socialist posturing was also a way of social climbing, since I always included my father among the capitalists I was determined to dethrone, whereas he was just a small entrepreneur.
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   1. 4

      To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance.

      • All that was Good and Holy, is dethron’d, And Lust, and Rapine are for justice own’d.

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