remonarchize

English

Etymology

Verb

remonarchize (third-person singular simple present remonarchizes, present participle remonarchizing, simple past and past participle remonarchized)

To change the form of government back into a monarchy.
- 1805, The Annual Review and History of Literature - Volume 3, page 255:
  Anarchies usually terminate in military usurpation: but if Bonaparte had been a disciple of the new, not of the old, principles; of the Jacobin, not of the Jesuitic, school of French opinion, that natural retrocession from excess, the counter-revolution of law and usage would, under him, have been the least possible; whereas, now, it will be the greatest possible; and, in the endeavour to remonarchize France, law and institution may be pushed back so far, as to leave the crown greatly strengthened.
- 1836, Edward Churton, Life of Prince Tallyrand‎^[1], page 10:
  Far from this, the only reply which the Emperor of the French made to those who contested his title, was by adding to it that of King of Italy ; for if France, when a republic had republicanized other kingdoms, Imperial France remonarchized the republics she had founded on the ruins of the thrones she had destroyed.
- 1925, Sampson R. Child, The Revolutionary Labor Amendment and the Constitution, page 11:
  Having demonarchized government into a trinarchy of the Legislative, executive and Judicial, shall we remonarchize it into a legislative oligarchy?
- 1936, World Events - Volumes 13-17:
  Very well, to do this you must keep Austria a republic for the time being, since an effort to annex a remonarchized Austria would create difficulties that would probably be insoluble.
To restore support for the monarchy.
- 1874, John Gaylord Wells, The Grange: A Study in the Science of Society, page 65:
  And such is the self-defeating blindness of all personal non-monarchists who are now desiring, aiming or acting through the agency of the dual political party to accomplish any other end than the remonarchizing of the population which such party embraces.
- 1990, Daniel Bivona, Desire and Contradiction, page 12:
  As Young England was founded to repurify and remonarchize the Tory Party , so Coningsby's inheritance of his grandfather's estate through Flora relegitimizes an otherwise traditional ( albeit roundabout ) chain of inheritance :
- 1999, Herbert Langthaler, Sura za Afrika: voices from Africa, page 104:
  Even those who had hated Monarchy, were remonarchised because they resented the way Republicans humiliated them.