disenthrone
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He had but to disenthrone her who for fifteen years, with true and tender love, had shared his existence.
From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
There lie—twin monsters of enormous girth— Aloeus' sons, who 'gainst Olympus cast Their impious hands, and strove with daring vast To disenthrone the Thunderer.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
Either to disenthrone the King of Heaven We war, if war be best, or to regain Our own right lost.
From Paradise Lost by Milton, John
And, indeed, it was death we had come to disenthrone.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
Honora moved with a slow hauteur in her black gown, looking like a disenthroned queen, and as she walked down the train aisle Kate thought of Marie Antoinette.
From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson
Thou hast the god Of the priest disenthroned!
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various