Definition of "uncrown"
uncrown
verb
third-person singular simple present uncrowns, present participle uncrowning, simple past and past participle uncrowned
To deprive of the monarchy or other authority or status.
Quotations
Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,And therefore I’ll uncrown him ere’t be long.
c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii]
[…] this poor fool clung to Lear after he had given away his crown, and by his witty sayings would keep up his good humour, though he could not refrain sometimes from jeering at his master for his imprudence in uncrowning himself, and giving all away to his daughters;
1807, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, “King Lear”, in Tales from Shakespeare, London: Thomas Hodgkins, page 199
I see the clear sunsets of the martyrs, / I see from the scaffolds the descending ghosts, / Ghosts of dead lords, uncrowned ladies, impeached ministers, rejected kings, / Rivals, traitors, poisoners, disgraced chieftains, and the rest.
1860, Walt Whitman, “Chants Democratic, 2” Stanza 19, in Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, p. 136