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  • noun Plural form of dethronement.

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Examples

  • The case was cited specifically in later dethronements, and it would provide the model for the dethronement of Cao Fang [omission: Chinese characters] (r. 239-254) in

    Empresses and Consorts 1999

  • They are a dominion convulsed with revolutions; coronations and dethronements in ceasless succession -- each ruler a usurper and a despot.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • They are a dominion convulsed with revolutions; coronations and dethronements in ceasless succession -- each ruler a usurper and a despot.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • It is of such materials that consist the pictures of history whose gaunt outlines of battles, sieges, coronations, dethronements, and parliaments are of little worth without the living and breathing details of everyday existence.

    Publisher's Advertising (1872) Anonymous

  • Incident is crowded upon incident; revolutions, rebellions, dethronements follow one another with amazing rapidity -- all duly authenticated and elaborated by powerful dialogue.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

  • During this century (A.D. 1592-1689) of the most sanguinary wars, revolutions and dethronements, the condition of Arab literature in the

    Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature F. F. Arbuthnot 1867

  • They are a dominion convulsed with revolutions; coronations and dethronements in ceaseless succession -- each ruler a usurper and a despot.

    American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 1839

  • There are also frequent dethronements of the petty princes.

    Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

  • The last deciding blow in a deadly competition of equally selfish parties; actions and reactions of ambition and revenge; the fiat of a conqueror; a burst of blind fury, suddenly sweeping away an old order of things, but overwhelming to all attempts to substitute a better institution; plots, massacres, battles, dethronements, restorations: all actuated by a fermentation of the ordinary or the basest elements of humanity.

    An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance John Foster 1806

  • Even these lists do not probably include all the unnatural deaths and dethronements that have occurred among the 2540 rulers thus tabulated, for it was often deemed politic to conceal the circumstances of a monarch's death, and history mentions many such instances in which the cause of death is doubtful; so that, for example, the 11 insane and the 20 suicides and the 62 poisoned doubtless do not comprise the whole number of deaths which ought to be included under those descriptions.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

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