decoronation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The removal of the crown of an ankylosed tooth while leaving the roots untouched.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The deprivation of a crown; the deprivation of the status of monarch or of authority.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: accession"
- "More likely, should there be a decoronation of Old Fitz, is that there should be one crowned for the nonce, a caretaker king, who would reign until the special convention six months hence, when blood would flow as jousting takes a serious and earnest turn."
- "This explains why there has been a constant stream of posthumous decoronations of Russian dictators: de-Ivanization followed the reign of Ivan the Terrible, de-Petrinization that of Peter 1, de-Nicholization that of Nicholas I and so on."
- "The State Tinkers is one of many recoronations or even decoronations of George III that appeared in response to the unprecedented threats to the monarchy during the closing decades of the century."
- "Perhaps the Farsa served as the first step in a concrete political action by creating the dramatic space in which Alfonso could make his challenge effective, a space already imprinted with his presence and with the violent decoronation of an extant king."
- "[…] it celebrated the ‘decoronation’ of the Communist party and the promise of free elections. / Yet, in spite of the NP’s supposed ‘decoronation’, the outgoing party was not as marginalized as some might have expected."