The Collaborative International Dictionary
dethrone \de*throne"\ (d[-e]*thr[=o]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Dethroned (d[-e]*thr[=o]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n.
Dethroning.] [Pref. de- + throne: cf. F. d['e]tr[^o]ner;
pref. d['e]- (L. dis-) + tr[^o]ne throne. See Throne.]
To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of
supreme authority and dignity. ``The Protector was
dethroned.''
--Hume.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of dethrone English)
Usage examples of "dethroning".
The two brothers were discontented with their position at the Court where Count Bruhl was supreme, and put themselves at the head of the plot for dethroning the king, and for placing on the throne, under Russian protection, their young nephew, who had originally gone to St.
Maybe Hollus’s God was the ultimate Copernican-style dethroning: yes, a creator exists, but its creations don’t have souls.
The question of dethroning or, if these gentlemen like the phrase better, "cashiering" kings will always be, as it has always been, an extraordinary question of state, and wholly out of the law-- a question (like all other questions of state) of dispositions and of means and of probable consequences rather than of positive rights.
The persons who have worked this engine the most busily are those who have ended their panegyrics in dethroning his successor and descendant, a man as good-natured, at the least, as Henry the Fourth, altogether as fond of his people, and who has done infinitely more to correct the ancient vices of the state than that great monarch did, or we are sure he ever meant to do.