Dethronement

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Removal from a throne; deposition of a king, an emperor, or any supreme ruler.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the act of being dethroned.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office
  • Word Usage
    "4 No doubt Cardinal Pie, the 19th-century Bishop of Poitiers and anti-liberal crusader, who called the dethronement of Christ a crime against which "we should never cease to protest," would have objected to the notion that we should tone-down our objection to the modern world's apostasy and its essential incompatibility with the Faith."
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