Unqueen
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Unqueen is a verb meaning (transitive) To divest of the rank or authority of queen.
Meaning
(transitive) To divest of the rank or authority of queen.
More Meanings
- (beekeeping) to remove the queen bee
Example Sentences
When I am dead, good Wench, / Let me be vs’d with Honor; ſtrew me ouer / With Maiden Flowers, that all the world may know / I was a chaſte Wife, to my Graue: Embalme me, / Then lay me forth (although vnqueen’d) yet like / A Queene, and Daughter to a King enterre me.
Word Forms
- unqueens
- unqueening
- unqueened
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include uncrown, disenthrone, dequeen, descepter, unmonarch, unkingdom.
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