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enthrone

[en-throhn] / ɛnˈθroʊn /




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The fund helped steady the finances of war-ravaged Europe, enthrone the dollar as the international currency and shore up U.S. allies from Britain to Korea.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2017

And the knights launched a revolt to enthrone the son of one of them, 20-year-old Stanislas Parvulesco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2015

Of these the Legitimists want to enthrone former King Alfonso XIII's third son Don Juan.

From Time Magazine Archive

One such arrangement might be to enthrone Khalid, but give the real control to a younger, more dynamic man.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Even if Illyrio is the friend you think him," the knight said stubbornly, "he is not powerful enough to enthrone you by himself, no more than he could your brother."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Von Stuck delights in contrasts: On the “Orpheus wall,” he enthrones the mythical lyre-player above tamed animals in an architectural fresco based on Pompeian murals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Karole Armitage's choreography also keeps the joint jumping and Scott Pask's design ironically enthrones the excellent band in a vast military truck.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2010

And, most significant of all, these are the world-wide examples that the college man enthrones in the empire of his thoughts.

From Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association by Stephen Francis Weston

How it strives weakly in the child, is loosed In manhood, clogged by sickness, back compelled By age and waste, set free at last by death: Why is it, flesh enthralls it or enthrones?

From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson

To understand 446:21 God strengthens hope, enthrones faith in Truth, and         verifies Jesus' word: "Lo, I am with you alway, even         unto the end of the world."

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

A former nurse made history Wednesday when she was enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to lead the centuries-old mother church of the world's 85 million-strong Anglican community.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

While such preparatory drawings often focused on the figures alone, Filippino devotes equal attention to the architectural setting, in this case an open loggia on which the saint is enthroned and surrounded by angels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Prolific sculptor Frederick William Sievers shows a seated Maury enthroned like Zeus before a globe held aloft by swarming figures representing the forces of air and water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

Hierarchies in art, with painting and sculpture enthroned at the top, don’t make sense either.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

About her feet in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

As the abolitionist senator Charles Sumner once said, “Our country, be she right or wrong: a sentiment dethroning God and enthroning the devil.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2017

Besides his plays and satirical romances he wrote the first modern history of philosophy, enthroning Reason after severe skirmishes with the Church and two emperors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon we shall repair our fault of not preventing the carrying off of our King by enthroning his son.

From Time Magazine Archive

The will is the man, and when the will bows, dethroning self and enthroning God, submitting to His appointments, and delighting to execute His commandments, then the sacrifice is begun.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

Above the enthroning threat The mouth's mould testifies of voice and kiss, The shadowed eyes remember and foresee.

From Master of the Vineyard by Myrtle Reed


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