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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
It is their expiation that we make ours: they must go free of us; and when they come again and discrown us, then in love we shall be at one and equal.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
Macduff, having quarrelled with the king, joined Malcolm, and the English king, thinking favorably of their cause, sent a great army into Scotland to discrown Macbeth.
From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth
Where ’twas shrined in my heart I thy image discrown, And from out thy high heaven I hurl thee adown!
From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig
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
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