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名詞

dethronement (plural dethronements)

1. 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.

参考

• abdication

参照

• “dethronement”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• dethronement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia