Removing a monarch from power.
The act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office.
1 On the 2nd of April the Senate proclaimed the dethronement of Napoleon.
2 The dethronement of a fetish may give a sounder faith its chance.
3 He preferred dethronement and exile rather than see his capital deluged in blood.
4 The dethronement of the King, totally severed many such from the revolutionary party.
5 His dethronement and the restoration of the Bourbons were not as yet contemplated.
6 The dethronement of aristocracy in favour of democracy has proceeded on very similar lines.
7 Either dethronement of a prince or apostacy of a theological dignitary must be intended.
8 Thus the dethronement of tradition by the Pope contributed to make the Modernist movement possible.
9 That King little thought that his cruelties were preparing the way for his own dethronement .
10 Montjoie says: The question of dethronement was discussed with a degree of frenzy in the Assembly.
11 Philip had sworn in his inmost soul the conquest of England and the dethronement of Elizabeth.
12 He is treating of the dethronement of kings.
13 M'Bongwele never, perhaps, looked more kingly than whilst he thus stood to receive his sentence of dethronement .
14 In July, war broke out suddenly between France and Germany, which resulted in the dethronement of Napoleon III.
15 He has borne dethronement and captivity; but methinks I should pine and die, and I would far rather-
16 Such words meant murder, pillage, civil war, dethronement , general anarchy; and so Dietrich threw Pope John into prison.
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