discrown

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Canst thou love one Who did discrown thine husband, unqueen thee?

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

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

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 Zweig, Stefan

They did not attempt to put one king in place of another, but to dethrone human nature and discrown the very manhood of the race.

From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by Lowell, James Russell

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