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Definition of Enthronements
1. enthronement [n] - See also: enthronement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enthronements
Literary usage of Enthronements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1872)
"In the ceremonies attending later enthronements the champion was permitted no part.
The public banquet of the sovereign in Westminster Hall was dispensed ..."
2. English Literature, from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1898)
"... to put down on the Easter Tables the briefest and driest records of the events
of the year, chiefly the deaths and enthronements of bishops and kings. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1888)
"... efforts at Godiva processions, much-advertised enthronements of a Queen of
the May; but the trail of the nineteenth century is over them all. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1878)
"... with figures of ecclesiastics, funeral rites, installations, enthronements,
&c., and a few sculptures intended to teach primitive sacred beliefs, ..."
5. The American in Holland: Sentimental Rambles in the Eleven Provinces of the by William Elliot Griffis (1907)
"In Amsterdam I found artists and artificers busy in getting the city in which
enthronements always take place in festal array for the Joyous Entry and the ..."
6. Were You Ever a Child by Floyd Dell (1921)
"And one reason why parents are not the best persons to teach children democracy,
is that they are the authors of the whole succession of enthronements and ..."
7. The World's Great Events ...: A History of the World from Ancient to Modern by Esther Singleton (1903)
"The darkness of the place, the limited company, that air of effacement and almost
of mystery —everything led the thoughts back to the first enthronements of ..."
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