Decoronation

Quick meaning: Decoronation is a noun meaning (dentistry) The removal of the crown of an ankylosed tooth while leaving the roots untouched.

Meaning

(dentistry) The removal of the crown of an ankylosed tooth while leaving the roots untouched.

More Meanings

1. The deprivation of a crown; the deprivation of the status of monarch or of authority.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: accession

The State Tinkers is one of many recoronations or even decoronations of George III that appeared in response to the unprecedented threats to the monarchy during the closing decades of the century.

[…] it celebrated the ‘decoronation’ of the Communist party and the promise of free elections. / Yet, in spite of the NP’s supposed ‘decoronation’, the outgoing party was not as marginalized as some might have expected.

This explains why there has been a constant stream of posthumous decoronations of Russian dictators: de-Ivanization followed the reign of Ivan the Terrible, de-Petrinization that of Peter 1, de-Nicholization that of Nicholas I and so on.

Word Forms

• decoronations

Synonyms for decoronation

Depending on context, synonyms include coronectomy, dethroning, dethronement, accession.

Antonyms for decoronation

Common opposites include coronation, crowning, enthroning, enthronement.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crownwork, outdentation, dedentition, crowning, crownment, endo.

Related Dictionary Tools