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recoronation

recoronation noun: the act of recoronating.

Noun

recoronation (plural recoronations)

  1. The act of recoronating.
    • […] the great, the good, the devout, the obedient would rise with the graced, the games would be conducted, celebrations held, feasts, dances, marriages, recoronations, and spectacular births would occur.1953, New Directions in Prose & Poetry, volume 14, page 175
    • The only sure references to the ascent of the throne are found in context with Ur, however, and no and incontrovertible evidence was recoronations in the full sense.1986, Richard H. Wilkinson, Mesopotamian Coronation and Accession Rites in the Neo-Sumerian and Early Old-Babylonian Periods, University of Minnesota, page 88

Examples of recoronation in a sentence

  • The State Tinkers is one of many recoronations or even decoronations of George III that appeared in response to the unprecedented threats to the monarchy during the closing decades of the century.1990, Vincent Carretta, George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron, Athens, Ga.; London: The University of Georgia Press, →ISBN...
  • The wig plus crown, in conjunction with the youthful physiognomy, signaled the rejuvenation of the king at one of his sed-festival recoronations.1998, Florence Dunn Friedman, Georgina Borromeo, editors, Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, Thames and Hudson, →ISBN, page 202...
  • Originally it was not even the most prominent act in king-making, for there could be coronations and recoronations, while early accounts of anointings do not even mention coronations.2012, Geoffrey Koziol, The Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas: The West Frankish Kingdom (840–987) (Utrecht...

Forms of recoronation

pluralrecoronations

Origin of recoronation

From re- + coronation.

Questions about recoronation

What does recoronation mean?
Recoronation means the act of recoronating.
How do you use recoronation in a sentence?
The State Tinkers is one of many recoronations or even decoronations of George III that appeared in response to the unprecedented threats to the monarchy during the closing decades of the century.
What part of speech is recoronation?
Recoronation is a noun.
What is the plural of recoronation?
The plural of recoronation is recoronations.

Words near recoronation in the dictionary

  1. recorkers
  2. recorking
  3. recorkings
  4. recorks
  5. recoronate
  6. recoronation
  7. recoronations
  8. recorporate
  9. recorporealization
  10. recorporealize
  11. recorporealized

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