depulsion
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depulsion (uncountable)
- A driving or thrusting away.
- 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Henrie the Sixth, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 94, page 672, column 2:
- Shee [Margaret of Anjou] vvas his vvife tvventie ſixe yeeres, and tvventie nine daies: and (after her husbands depulſion from his regall throne) her forces being vanquiſhed at the battell of Tevvksburie, in a poore religious houſe, vvhether ſhee had fled for the ſafetie of her life, vvas taken priſoner, […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “depulsion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)