discrown

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Perhaps you think that a small sovereign people, fresh from two triumphant wars, ought to discrown itself before sunrise; because the nephew of a neighbouring Emperor has been shot by his own subjects.

From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

To discrown and degrade Personality by taking away its two grand prerogatives,—this is his preliminary labor, this is his way of procuring a site for that edifice of scientific history which he proposes to build.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various

Consider this, Maria, Nor wantonly discrown that sacred head Of your young love to wreathe some curled boy's brow.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma

Mine am I No more: mine own in no wise now, but his To save or slay, to cherish or cast out, Crown and discrown, abase and comfort.

From Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Let her be true to her own glorious nature, and this attempt to unsex and discrown her will meet with the swift and terrible condemnation it deserves.

From True Woman, The A Series of Discourses by Fulton, Justin D.