Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dethrone; depose from sovereign authority.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
dethrone .
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Examples
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And, indeed, it was death we had come to disenthrone.
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He had but to disenthrone her who for fifteen years, with true and tender love, had shared his existence.
Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon 1843
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French government a new form, to disenthrone the five directors, and to place himself in their position.
Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon 1843
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