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Definition of Discrown
1. v. t. To deprive of a crown.
Definition of Discrown
1. Verb. To remove the crown from; thus, to deprive of royal status ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Discrown
1. to deprive of a crown [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discrown
Literary usage of Discrown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Psalms of Israel in Rhymed English Metre by Melancthon Woolsey Stryker (1915)
"I will discrown and break them down! While faith and love delivers, His hand
shall be upon the sea, His right hand on the rivers. 'My Father! ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"You can no more disestablish or discrown the Common Law than you can disestablish
or discrown Shakespeare. That is why English lawyers and American lawyers ..."
3. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
"Filling earth with the sound; Alas ! the Old Year Lieth dead aiul discrown'd.
Happy dreams, sunny joys, Pleasant thoughts that we cherished Were bom while ..."
4. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"Why discrown these spiritual kings and crucify these saviours of a darkened world ?
A narrow conception of salvation is responsible for this serious error ..."
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