coronations

Noun

coronation (plural coronations)

1. (also, attributive, literally) An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.
   • [A]nd if vvee be Spouſes of this Bridegroom [Jesus], vvee cannot but (as vvee are exhorted) rejoyce in that the marriage of the Lambe is come, and the day of our ovvn coronation vvith an incorruptible Crovvn of glory.1612, Thomas Taylor, “A Commentary upon the Epistle of St. Paul Written to Titus. [Second Chapter.]”, in The Works of the Judicious and Learned Divine Thomas Taylor […], volume II, London: […]...
   1. (also, attributive, literally, specifically) An act or the ceremony of formally investing a sovereign or the sovereign's consort with a crown and other insignia of royalty, on or shortly after their accession to the sovereignty.
      • King Charles III’s coronation is to be much less elaborate compared to his mother’s.
2. (figuratively) A completion or culmination of something.
3. (figuratively) A success in the face of little or no opposition.
4. (rare, board games) In the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward.
   • Here, the huffing of Miss Bella and the loss of three of her men at a swoop, aggravated by the coronation of an opponent, led to that young lady's jerking the draught-board and pieces off the table: which her sister went down on her knees to pick up.1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “The R. Wilfer Family”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, 1st book (The Cup and the Lip), page 27

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