Meaning

To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy..

Definitions by Sense

1. To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.
2. To remove any governing authority from power.
3. To remove from any position of high status or power.
4. (figuratively) To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance.

Example Sentences

[…] he (the said Pope) doth not onely claime to be spirituall head of all Christians, but also to haue an Imperiall Ciuill power ouer all Kings and Emperours, dethroning and decrowning princes with his foote, as pleaseth him […]

Thou, Goddess-Mother, with our Sire comply, Nor break the sacred Union of the Sky: Lest, rouz’d to Rage, he shake the blest Abodes, Launch the red Lightning, and dethrone the Gods.

Each card had a great stain in the middle of its back, produced by the touch of generations of damp and excited thumbs now fleshless in the grave; and the kings and queens wore a decayed expression of feature, as if they were rather an impecunious dethroned race of monarchs hiding in obscure slums than real regal characters.

And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

Not only where the chief magistrate enters into measures, in themselves, extremely pernicious to the public, but even when he wou’d encroach on the other parts of the constitution, and extend his power beyond the legal bounds, it is allowable to resist and dethrone him;

[…] demands by Sakharov and others for further change—notably the dethroning of the increasingly discredited Party from its privileged position—could not be swept aside […]

1753, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal, No. 23, 24 March, 1753, Volume 1, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 168, […] we conclude, sincerely wishing, that you may continue to display your usual Graces of Elocution, and admirable Powers of Action, untill Harlequin shall dethrone the great Shakespear, or Pierot usurp the Seat of Johnson.

“[…] I’m a dethroned elder child, remember. My temper isn’t so damned long as you sometimes think!”

Word Forms

• dethrones
• dethroning
• dethroned

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