recoronation

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ coronation.

Noun

recoronation (plural recoronations)

1. The act of recoronating.
   • 1953, New Directions in Prose & Poetry, volume 14, page 175:

     […] the great, the good, the devout, the obedient would rise with the graced, the games would be conducted, celebrations held, feasts, dances, marriages, recoronations, and spectacular births would occur.

   • 1986, Richard H. Wilkinson, Mesopotamian Coronation and Accession Rites in the Neo-Sumerian and Early Old-Babylonian Periods, University of Minnesota, page 88:

     The only sure references to the ascent of the throne are found in context with Ur, however, and no and incontrovertible evidence was recoronations in the full sense.

   • 1990, Vincent Carretta, George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron, Athens, Ga., London: The University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 251:

     The State Tinkers is one of many recoronations or even decoronations of George III that appeared in response to the unprecedented threats to the monarchy during the closing decades of the century.

   • 1991, Jean-Philippe Lauer, The Pyramids of Sakkara: […], Cairo: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, →ISBN, pages 18 and 20:

     This is why the very remarkable quadrant-shaped wall [fig. 18–19], that one follows to reach eastward the so-called « Heb-Sed court », had only been imagined to facilitate the fictive crossing of processions of spirits, which would have solemnly driven his ka from the royal rest-house to the double canopy of the jubilee for his two recoronations as King of the South and King of the North.

   • 1998, Florence Dunn Friedman, Georgina Borromeo, editors, Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, Thames and Hudson, →ISBN, page 202, column 1:

     The wig plus crown, in conjunction with the youthful physiognomy, signaled the rejuvenation of the king at one of his sed-festival recoronations.

   • 2001, Stephen W. Reinert, “Political Dimensions of Manuel II Palaiologos’ 1392 Marriage”, in Claudia Sode, Sarolta Takács, editors, Novum Millennium: Studies on Byzantine History and Culture Dedicated to Paul Speck, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 293:

     Неrе Вarker curiously ignores Schreiner’s hypothesis for Manuel’s recoronation, namely that Маnuel’s first coronation in 1373 plausibly had not involved the patriarch of Constantinople, owing to John V’s personal conversion to Catholicism in October 1369, and his subsequent possible exclusion from participating in orthodox rites. Schreiner intimated, consequently, that the 1392 recoronation, though not strictly necessary to legitimize Маnuel’s succession, was intended to rectify the anomaly that he heretоfore had not been anointed by the patriarch of Constantinople, in an orthodox ecclesiastical ceremony.

   • 2012, Geoffrey Koziol, The Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas: The West Frankish Kingdom (840–987) (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy; 19), Brepols, →ISBN, page 66:

     Originally it was not even the most prominent act in king-making, for there could be coronations and recoronations, while early accounts of anointings do not even mention coronations.

   • 2015, Ofer Kenig, Gideon Rahat, Or Tuttnauer, “Competitiveness of Party Leadership Selection Processes”, in William P. Cross, Jean-Benoit Pilet, editors, The Politics of Party Leadership: A Cross-National Perspective, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57:

     Yet, although we have this in mind, it would be better to put the cases of ritual recoronations of incumbents aside and focus on those cases where competition is more likely—that is, when the incumbent steps down.