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bethroned

bethroned adjective: having or seated upon a throne; enthroned.

Adjective

bethroned (comparative more bethroned, superlative most bethroned)

  1. (archaic, rare) Having or seated upon a throne; enthroned.
    • […] The city cast
      Her people out upon her; and Antony,
      Bethroned in the market-place, did sit alone,
      Whistling to the air; […]1840, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton, “Needlework of the Egyptians” (chapter IV), in The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries, 2nd...
    • At intervals there was a great platform car, bethroned and grandly canopied, upholstered in silks, carpeted with oriental rugs, and freighted with girls clothed in gala costumes.2010, Mark Twain, Ms. Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 1, page 126

Examples of bethroned in a sentence

  • And yet, Skinned One, so they say, can frighten the Tlatoani himself, even as His Majesty sits bethroned in the capital—and this with only an angled glance from those opaque eyes.2011, S. L. Gilman, A Jaggedy New World, page 57:
  • What is disturbing (and distorting) is that these writers should be assembled like so many courtiers or footmen round the bethroned, centre-stage figures of Osbert and Edith Sitwell.2017, Laura Severin, Poetry Off the Page:

Forms of bethroned

comparativemore bethroned
superlativemost bethroned

Origin of bethroned

From be- (“at, on, over, upon”) + throned.

Questions about bethroned

What does bethroned mean?
Bethroned means having or seated upon a throne; enthroned.
How do you use bethroned in a sentence?
And yet, Skinned One, so they say, can frighten the Tlatoani himself, even as His Majesty sits bethroned in the capital—and this with only an angled glance from those opaque eyes.
What part of speech is bethroned?
Bethroned is an adjective.

Words near bethroned in the dictionary

  1. bethrall
  2. bethralled
  3. bethralling
  4. bethralls
  5. bethreatened
  6. bethroned
  7. bethrong
  8. bethroot
  9. bethroots
  10. bethroth
  11. bethrothal

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