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unsceptring

unsceptring is the present participle and gerund of unsceptre.

Meaning of unsceptre

Verb

unsceptre (third-person singular simple present unsceptres, present participle unsceptring, simple past and past participle unsceptred)

  1. To deprive of a sceptre; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority.
    • It is the cuſtome for their Kings to inherite, the ſonne alvvayes taking the Kingdome after his fathers death. If there be no ſonne, then the Queene rules; if no Queene, the next to the blood-royall, vvho comes in othervvise, is but counted an uſurping intruder, and if his faire carriage beare him...1634, William Wood, “Of Their Kings Government, and Subjects Obedience”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England...

Questions about unsceptring

What is unsceptring the present participle and gerund of?
Unsceptring is the present participle and gerund of unsceptre.

Words near unsceptring in the dictionary

  1. unsceptical
  2. unsceptically
  3. unsceptre
  4. unsceptred
  5. unsceptres
  6. unsceptring
  7. unschedulable
  8. unschedule
  9. unscheduled
  10. unschedules
  11. unscheduling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsceptring (page history and authors); unsceptre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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