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  • verb Present participle of throne.

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Examples

  • And a nice day to you too - the drought hasn't yet broken out in forest fires; one of the local does has triplets and her efforts to wean them are comical to everyone but the indignant fawns; the horsemint is out and aphrodite fritillaries are thronging it - although I have to say that 'throning' is kind of a euphemism for what the wanton butterflies are actually doing to those stamens and pistils.

    A Saturday coffeehouse. Ann Althouse 2008

  • If I make a statement that we must stop Corporation from running our government at any costs, and it happens, By Violence, Can I be put in jail for de-throning Corporations from office?

    Appellate Court: Encouraging Civil Disobedience is Not Protected Speech 2010

  • If I make a statement that we must stop Corporation from running our government at any costs, and it happens, By Violence, Can I be put in jail for de-throning Corporations from office?

    Appellate Court: Encouraging Civil Disobedience is Not Protected Speech 2010

  • In light of his recent throning, the chancellor annoints Vader to his seat.

    George Lucas: Done with the big screen? | EW.com 2006

  • A good Astros game last night topped off by a scumbag de-throning.

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Bonus Bye-Bye Bugman Edition 2006

  • And ye shall understand, that when [there be] great feasts and solemnities of that idol, as the dedication of the church and the throning of the idol, all the country about meet there together.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Don Enrique, returning, told me of it in his room at night, of the Christian service in the mosque and the throning in the Alhambra.

    1492, 1922

  • Bourbon king, throning it in the Tuileries and granting audiences to the ladies of his court? or is it only for my edification that he plays this magnificent game of etiquette and ceremonial and other stupid paraphernalia which have set me wondering since last night?

    The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • In our passage through life we meet scarcely any who do not persist, with a kind of unreasoning obstinacy, in throning the material within them, and there maintaining it supreme.

    The Buried Temple Maurice Maeterlinck 1905

  • Don Enrique, returning, told me of it in his room at night, of the Christian service in the mosque and the throning in the Alhambra.

    1492 Mary Johnston 1903

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