recoronate
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recoronate (third-person singular simple present recoronates, present participle recoronating, simple past and past participle recoronated)
- To coronate again.
- Synonym: recrown
- 1985, Gary R. Orren, “The Nomination Process: Vicissitudes of Candidate Selection”, in Michael Nelson, editor, The Elections of 1984, CQ Press, →ISBN, section “The Republicans in 1984”, page 72:
- Although the Republican convention was predestined to recoronate Reagan, the platform fights, speech making, and general politicking that occurred there revealed that party unity extended only as far as the choice of a nominee.
- 1986, Steve Silberman, “from Reconsecrating Ground Zero”, in Michael Mayo, editor, Practising Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry, San Francisco, Calif.: Seismograph Publications, →ISBN, page 184:
- Cant take our bodies / when the bomb lets us in / cant take hearing cant take eyesight / when the bomb opens, / cant take John Kennedy, / cant take the trail up the silent mountain, / cant return prettier, more peaceful / to tend the garden / when the sparrow flies up / in the thorny courtyard, / cant go back home / cant go back home / cant buy out, cant change the election, / cant storm the fences with suitcases of proof / when the chain of command, / when the executives rush to the elevators / for the trade-off, / when the first strike squadron enters Soviet airspace, / cant reswallow our souls / at the moment of detonation / cant recoronate the lamb on the heart’s throne / and pardon the Thief, when the bomb opens / its flower of heavy elements
- 1998, Richard North Patterson, chapter 4, in No Safe Place, BCA, page 281:
- The only purpose was to recoronate the President and Dick Mason with as little fuss as possible; […]
- 2001, Richard Layman, Julie M. Rivett, editors, Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921–1960, Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 100:
- In October 1937 the former king, now Duke of Windsor, visited Germany and was honored by the Nazi Party. Hitler later devised a fanciful plan to recoronate the duke King of England.
- 2006 [revised edition; a. 1972], Rajbali Pandey, Atharvaveda (Sookta-wise Translation), Diamond Books, →ISBN, page 28:
- O king! May Varuna, Som, Indra make your people recoronate you and defeating the enemies may you get back your lost glory.
- 2007, Wellington Webb, Cindy Brovsky, Wellington Webb: The Man, the Mayor, and the Making of Modern Denver, Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing, →ISBN, page 303:
- “[…] No one could accuse this incumbent of arrogantly sitting back and expecting voters to recoronate him.”
- 2013, Malcolm B. Yarnell III, Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 46:
- It is said he wanted Arundel to recoronate him with the holy oil supposedly given to Thomas Becket by the Virgin Mary, recently discovered among his possessions.