coronation

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And so the coronation was at last performed with proper pomp and magnificence at St. Denis on Thursday, the 13th May.

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  1. noun The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign or the sovereign's consort.

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  • 'I hear,' wrote Walpole of what he calls the coronation at Oxford , 'my Lord Westmoreland's own retinue was all be-James'd with true-blue ribands.' —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
  • The marshal came back to Paris in November; the time for the coronation was drawing near and already the Pope, who had come for the ceremony, was at the Tuileries. —  The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot
  • Throughout that night the preparations for the coronation were feverishly made both within and without the cathedral. —  Joan of Arc
  • Mr Howard made it plain that his coronation was the end of anything remotely Right-wing. —  Mail Online - Peter Hitchens
  • And she ... she thinks she's in line for her coronation, and is snow and ice itself to the slaves, errr, maids and butler in their employ. —  I Was Born2Cree8
 

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  1. Middle English coronacioun, from Medieval Latin corōnātiō, corōnātiōn-, from Latin corōnātus, past participle of corōnāre, to crown, from corōna, crown; see crown.

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  1. from Middle English coronacion = Provencal coronatio = Spanish coronacion = Portuguese coronação = Italian coronazione, from Latin as if *coronatio(n-), a crowning, from coronare, crown: see crown, v., and cf. crownation.
 

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/kɑrəˈneɪʃən/
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