dethronement

Noun

Meaning

Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.

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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. Stephen Jay Gould

After God's dethronement as the subject of history, the question rebounds to the new subject of history: the human being. Source: Internet

Already, Sanusi’s supporters and political allies have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of masterminding the dethronement and banishment of the former Emir. Source: Internet

Prior to his dethronement and banishment from the land of his ancestors, Sanusi had had quite a bit of torrid relationship with the Kano state government. Source: Internet

They legitimized their rule by invoking the " Mandate of Heaven ", the notion that the ruler (the " Son of Heaven ") governed by divine right and that his dethronement would prove that he had lost the Mandate. Source: Internet

There is a striking analogy between matter and mind, and the present disorganization of society warns us that in the dethronement of woman we have let loose the elements of violence and ruin that she only has the power to curb. Source: Internet

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