discrown
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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 Macleod, Fiona
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
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
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 Butterworth, Hezekiah
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
