Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of enthroning, or the state of being enthroned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Recent The act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned.
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- noun The act of
enthroning or the state of being enthroned
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ceremony of installing a new monarch
Etymologies
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Examples
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"His enthronement is a glorious day for the monastery, as well as for all Buddhist monks and the faithful," said Losang Gyaltsen, a monk at the monastery said, according to the Buddhist Celebrities blog.
Robert Weller: Under China's Supervision, Zagor Monastery Selects Its Sixth Living Buddha
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Richard Poore before his enthronement was a benefactor to the monastery of Tarrant, in Dorsetshire, his native village.
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Laws are necessary instruments of the majority; but when they grind the sane human being to dust for their maintenance, their enthronement is the rule of the savage's old deity, sniffing blood-sacrifice.
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Laws are necessary instruments of the majority; but when they grind the sane human being to dust for their maintenance, their enthronement is the rule of the savage's old deity, sniffing blood-sacrifice.
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Laws are necessary instruments of the majority; but when they grind the sane human being to dust for their maintenance, their enthronement is the rule of the savage's old deity, sniffing blood-sacrifice.
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However, Kim Jong-un's public enthronement was scripted to benefit the system, not the individual.
Doug Bandow: North Korea: Time for Washington to Step Back and Let South Korea Lead
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Its latest commission is to make the dalmatics, stoles, chasuble, cope and altar frontal for the enthronement of Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the 11th archbishop of Westminster.
Update on Some Liturgical Details for the Installation of Archbishop Vincent Nichols
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Today, Patriarch-elect Metropolitan Kyrill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad was formally made the new Patriarch of the Moscow through the enthronement rite, which was then followed by the Divine Liturgy.
News from Christian Russia: Moscow's New Patriarch Enthroned Today
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She is not a mere sense delight, a toy for the debauchery of my intellect and the enthronement of emotion.
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Catherine had spent the long, lonely years at the Russian court before her enthronement educating herself broadly.
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