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disenthrone

verb

Etymology

From dis- + enthrone.

  1. derived from θρόνος — “chair, throne”
  2. derived from thronus
  3. derived from trone
  4. inherited from trone
  5. formed as enthrone — “en- + throne”
  6. prefixed as disenthrone — “dis + enthrone”

Definitions

  1. To remove (someone) from their position as monarch

    To remove (someone) from their position as monarch; to deprive of a position of supremacy.

    • […] to disinthrone the King of Heav’n / We warr […]
    • Honora moved with a slow hauteur in her black gown, looking like a disenthroned queen, and as she walked down the train aisle Kate thought of Marie Antoinette.

  2. To move (someone or something) from a desirable location or place of honour.

    • She remembered how she had so often disenthroned her father from his favorite chair for parlor dates […]

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

    • Marxism-Leninism will have to be disenthroned as party orthodoxy from which it is heretical to deviate […]

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