dethronement
nounEtymology From dethrone + -ment.
1
Removal from a superior place in a hierarchy.
- I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 240:
- Related terms
- abdication