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Definition of Decrowning
1. decrown [v] - See also: decrown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decrowning
Literary usage of Decrowning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights which are Here Displayed by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"All the clergy glorified her, all the duchesses and countesses bowed before her,
and there was not one who knew of that other terrible decrowning so soon to ..."
2. Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights which are Here Displayed by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"All the clergy glorified her, all the duchesses and countesses bowed before her,
and there was not one who knew of that other terrible decrowning so soon to ..."
3. The History of England: As Well Ecclesiastical as Civil. By Mr. De Rapin by Rapin de Thoyras (Paul), M. Rapin de Thoyras (1732)
"... but alfo to have an Impe- *' rial Civil Power over all Kings and Emperours, *'
dethroning and decrowning Princes with his Foot *' as ..."
4. The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now by Thomas Overbury, Edward Francis Rimbault (1856)
"... and where the popes excommunication thunders, he holds it no more sinne the
decrowning of kings, than our Puri- tanes doe the suppression of bishops. ..."
5. Memoirs of the Court of King James the First by Lucy Aikin (1822)
"... dethroning and decrowning princes with his foot as pleaseth him, and dispensing
and disposing of all kingdoms and empires at his appetite. ..."
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