dethronement

English

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-der.

English de-

Middle English trone

English throne

English dethrone

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Old French -mentbor.

Middle English -ment

English -ment

English dethronement

dethronement (plural dethronements)

Removal from a superior place in a hierarchy.
Synonym: disenthronement
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 240:
  I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.

the act of being dethroned