unkingdom

present singular third person unkingdoms · participle present unkingdoming · participle past unkingdomed · past unkingdomed

1. To deprive (a monarch) of a kingdom.

   “So I am he, who in yet beardless years Did plot the ways to unkingdom Maxtala;

   1855, Alice Cary, “The Maiden of Tlascala”, in Poems, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, page 360

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   Shadows of things and veils of ages riven Are as men’s kings unkingdomed in thy sight.

   1871, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Mater Triumphalis”, in Songs before Sunrise, London: F.S. Ellis, page 174

   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 […]

   1917, James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest, New York: Robert M. McBride, Book 3, Chapter 4, p. 118