discrown
verbEtymology From dis- + crown.
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To remove the crown from; thus, to deprive of royal status.
- He discrowned, in rapid succession, one after another of the United States' most, accomplished and admirable commanders.1876, John Esten Cooke, A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee:
- "Never attempt to discrown the king."1897, Hezekiah Butterworth, True to His Home:
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- Not, even indirectly, the discrowned Turk, for if he were not banned by his crimes he would still be doomed by his incapacity.1917, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Turkey= A Past and a Future: