unkingdom
English
Verb
unkingdom (third-person singular simple present unkingdoms, present participle unkingdoming, simple past and past participle unkingdomed)
- To deprive (a monarch) of a kingdom.
- 1855, Alice Cary, “The Maiden of Tlascala” in Poems, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, p. 360,
- “So I am he, who in yet beardless years
- Did plot the ways to unkingdom Maxtala;
- 1871, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Mater Triumphalis” in Songs before Sunrise, London: F.S. Ellis, p. 174,
- Shadows of things and veils of ages riven
- Are as men’s kings unkingdomed in thy sight.
- 1917, James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest, New York: Robert M. McBride, Book 3, Chapter 4, p. 118,
- There was no continuity in these dreams […] Sometimes they would be alone in places which he did not recognize, sometimes they would be living, under the Stuarts or the Valois or the Cæsars, or other dynasties long since unkingdomed […]
- 1855, Alice Cary, “The Maiden of Tlascala” in Poems, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, p. 360,
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