See dethrone in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 10”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
"text": "Each card had a great stain in the middle of its back, produced by the touch of generations of damp and excited thumbs now fleshless in the grave; and the kings and queens wore a decayed expression of feature, as if they were rather an impecunious dethroned race of monarchs hiding in obscure slums than real regal characters.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1923, Kahlil Gibran, “On Freedom”, in The Prophet, New York: Knopf, pages 55–56:",
"text": "And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy."
],
"links": [
[
"depose",
"depose"
],
[
"monarch",
"monarch"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "depose"
},
{
"word": "discrown"
},
{
"word": "disenthrone"
},
{
"word": "uncrown"
},
{
"word": "unking"
},
{
"word": "unsceptre"
},
{
"word": "unthrone"
}
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "empower"
},
{
"word": "install"
},
{
"word": "invest"
},
{
"word": "take office"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, London: John Noon, Volume 3, Part 2, Section 10, p. 183:",
"text": "Not only where the chief magistrate enters into measures, in themselves, extremely pernicious to the public, but even when he wou’d encroach on the other parts of the constitution, and extend his power beyond the legal bounds, it is allowable to resist and dethrone him;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Penguin, Part 2, Chapter 19, p. 600:",
"text": "[…] demands by Sakharov and others for further change—notably the dethroning of the increasingly discredited Party from its privileged position—could not be swept aside […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To remove any governing authority from power."
],
"links": [
[
"remove",
"remove"
],
[
"govern",
"govern"
],
[
"authority",
"authority"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bring down"
},
{
"word": "depose"
},
{
"word": "divest"
},
{
"word": "overthrow"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"text": "1753, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal, No. 23, 24 March, 1753, Volume 1, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 168,\n[…] we conclude, sincerely wishing, that you may continue to display your usual Graces of Elocution, and admirable Powers of Action, untill Harlequin shall dethrone the great Shakespear, or Pierot usurp the Seat of Johnson."
},
{
"ref": "1954, Peter De Vries, chapter 6, in The Tunnel of Love, Boston: Little, Brown, page 53:",
"text": "“[…] I’m a dethroned elder child, remember. My temper isn’t so damned long as you sometimes think!”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room Is Empty, New York: Ballantine, page 17:",
"text": "My socialist posturing was also a way of social climbing, since I always included my father among the capitalists I was determined to dethrone, whereas he was just a small entrepreneur.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To remove from any position of high status or power."
],
"links": [
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"status",
"status"
]
]
},
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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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"ref": "1672, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada, London: Henry Herringman, act V, page 140:",
"text": "All that was Good and Holy, is dethron’d,\nAnd Lust, and Rapine are for justice own’d.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 51:",
"text": "To endeavour to reason love out of the world, would […] offend against common sense; but an endeavour to restrain this tumultuous passion, and to prove that it should not be allowed to dethrone superior powers, or to usurp the sceptre which the understanding should ever coolly wield, appears less wild.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case,”",
"text": "[…] I not only recognised my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of certain of the powers that made up my spirit, but managed to compound a drug by which these powers should be dethroned from their supremacy, and a second form and countenance substituted, none the less natural to me because they were the expression, and bore the stamp of lower elements in my soul.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1972, Robertson Davies, The Manticore, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, published 2015, Part 2, Chapter 2:",
"text": "So I am to dethrone my Intellect and set Emotion in its place. Is that it?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance."
],
"links": [
[
"paramount",
"paramount"
],
[
"importance",
"importance"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "destronar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "syöstä vallasta"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "détrôner"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "entthronen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "absetzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "stürzen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "trónjától megfoszt"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "destronizar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "detronizzare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hikizuriorosu",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "引き摺り下ろす"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "haii suru",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "廃位する"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "detrona"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svergátʹ",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сверга́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svérgnutʹ",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "све́ргнуть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "destronar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "detronisera"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "störta från tronen"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "detronizuvaty",
"sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
"word": "детронізувати"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"word": "syöstä vallasta"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"word": "absetzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"word": "stürzen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"word": "eltávolít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"word": "lemondat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"word": "hivatalától megfoszt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"word": "megbuktat"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hikizuriorosu",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"word": "引き摺り下ろす"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"word": "răsturna"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"word": "prăbuși"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svergátʹ",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сверга́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svérgnutʹ",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "све́ргнуть"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"word": "detronisera"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"word": "avsätta"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "skydáty",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "скида́ти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "skýnuty",
"sense": "remove governing authority from power",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ски́нути"
}
],
"word": "dethrone"
}
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