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How to pronounce enthrone in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms invest, vest
Type of instal, install
Has types consecrate, coronate, crown, ordain, ordinate, order, throne
Derivation enthronement
Type Words
Synonyms throne
Type of vest, invest
Derivation enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization


The Queen was enthroned more than 50 years ago.

Examples of enthrone

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He was unable to enthrone himself because his great grandmother was a concubine.
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By the year 1000, Fujiwara no Michinaga was able to enthrone and dethrone emperors at will.
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Before dying, he requested to enthrone his elder brother.
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Siam sent troops to support the rebel prince, hoping to enthrone him and wrest influence from Gia Long over Cambodia.
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He said the Jacobites came to aid the English sympathisers, not to enthrone a king when they refused to help.
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Consequently, a faction of the royal council would prefer to enthrone Mpapatla's daughter when she comes of age.
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Enthrone Darkness Triumphant was a huge success for the band, and was their first release signed to Nuclear Blast, a German record label.
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However, relations became strained under Gia Long's successor Minh Mang as missionaries sought to incite revolts in an attempt to enthrone a Catholic.
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In 191, the coalition tried to further de-legitimize Dong Zhuo's position by offering to enthrone Liu Yu, who was eligible to be Emperor since he was a member of the royal clan.
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More examples
  • Invest: provide with power and authority; "They vested the council with special rights"
  • Put a monarch on the throne; "The Queen was enthroned more than 50 years ago"
  • (enthronement) coronation: the ceremony of installing a new monarch
  • An enthronement is a ceremony of inauguration, involving a person--usually a monarch or religious leader--being formally seated for the first time upon their throne. ...
  • To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to (and often combined with) coronation and/or other ceremonies of investiture; in a figurative sense, to help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does), or by extention in any other ...
  • To give the highest place to; exalt.