overthrowal
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editoverthrowal (plural overthrowals)
- The act of overthrowing something or someone.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, →ISBN, page 818:
- So he will interfere with natural growth by subjecting himself to unnatural discipline and putting himself to impossible tasks, such as the upsetting of kings and the overthrowal of empires.