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Unthrone

Unthrone \Un*throne"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + throne.] To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone.
--Milton.

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unthrone

vb. (context transitive English) To dethrone.

Usage examples of "unthrone".

Madelgarde claims that Charles has been living a celibate life ever since the plot to unthrone him was discovered.

Let it once but play the monarch, and its haughty brow glows with a beauty that bewilders thought and unthrones peace forever.

Discretion had kept Rao alive and discretion had enabled him to preserve his loyalty to the unthroned Rajah of the house of Wodeyar while still serving the Tippoo.

The unthroned big shot surveyed an excellent stew and nodded his commendation.

Strange, that this house should have been the death-place of the unthroned heiress of England, and, forty years afterwards, of the dethroned crafty old French king, Louis Philippe.

Either to disinthrone the King of Heav'n We warr, if warr be best, or to regain Our own right lost: him to unthrone we then May hope, when everlasting Fate shall yeild To fickle Chance, and CHAOS judge the strife: The former vain to hope argues as vain The latter: for what place can be for us Within Heav'ns bound, unless Heav'ns Lord supream We overpower?

Discretion had kept Rao alive and discretion had enabled him to preserve his loyalty to the unthroned Rajah of the house of Wodeyar while still serving the Tippoo.

She could decide for herself what to do with the burden of prophecy and doom that had attended from her birth that had unthroned her grandfather and killed her half-brothers.

He kept it still and went from village to village, mountain to mountain, an unthroned king, still seeking his flock.