decoronationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

decoronation (countable and uncountable, plural decoronations)

1. (dentistry) The removal of the crown of an ankylosed tooth while leaving the roots untouched.

   Synonym: coronectomy

2. The deprivation of a crown; the deprivation of the status of monarch or of authority.

   Synonyms: dethroning, dethronement

   Antonyms: coronation, crowning, enthroning, enthronement

   Near-synonym: accession

   • 1978, Fleet Owner, volume 73, page 64:

     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.

   • 1987, Слово, numbers 1–8, page 24:

     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.

   • 1990, Vincent Carretta, George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron, Athens, Ga., London: The University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 251:

     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.

   • 1999, William Egginton, Theatricality and Presence: A Phenomenology of Space and Spectacle in Early Modern France and Spain, Stanford University, page 80:

     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.

   • 2014, Martha Evans, “The Televised Birth of the Rainbow Nation: The Election and Mandela’s Inauguration”, in Broadcasting the End of Apartheid: Live Television and the Birth of the New South Africa, London, New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 191:

     […] 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.

   • 2017, Josette Elayi, Sargon II, King of Assyria, Atlanta, Ga.: SBL Press, →ISBN, page 142:

     Then a passage at the end of the sack of Musasir is interpreted as a kind of decoronation of King Rusâ: “one statue of Rusâ, with two of his horsemen, (and) his charioteer, with their shrine, cast in bronze, on which was engraved his own haughty (inscription), ‘With my two horses and one charioteer, my hand attained to the kingdom of Urartu’; (these things) together with his great wealth, which was without calculation, I carried off.”

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