dethronization

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English

Etymology

From dethronize +‎ -ation.

Noun

dethronization (usually uncountable, plural dethronizations)

  1. (obsolete) Dethronement.
    • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, ”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. , London: William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, , →OCLC, book IX ( ), paragraph 76, page 564, column 1:
      he Queene [Isabella of France], vvhen ſhee vvas [] aduertiſed of her huſbands dethronization, ſhee outvvardly expreſſed ſo great extremity of paſſion (notvvithſtanding that at the ſame time ſhee vvas tolde of her ſonnes [Edward III of England's] ſurrogation) as if ſhee had beene diſtraught in her vvittes: []

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