Meanings
- obsoleteThe act of crowning; coronation.
About the Crownment are thirteen little Boys with different Inſtruments, of which you may alſo diſcern the motion.
1697, Henry Rhodes, The Present State of Europe, volume 8, page 1122 more examples
It was in the eleven hundredth and ninth year since our Lord came down upon earth, and in the ninth year of the King's crownment, that Robert, King Henry's son, was made first Earl of Gloucester by marrying the right heir—a man who for his good deeds deserves to be ever held in remembrance.
1881, James Fawckner Nicholls, John Taylor, Bristol Past and Present, volume 1, page 71But this you are preparing in London, the Crownment of the King George and the Queen Mary, is the affair of the whole world.
1911, London Charivari, volumes 140-141, Punch Publications Limited, page 404
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Old Frenchcoronement
- Middle Englishcoronement
- Englishcrownment
From Middle English coronement, from Old French coronement, coronemant; equivalent to crown + -ment.
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