crownment

English

Etymology

From Middle English coronement, from Old French coronement, coronemant; equivalent to crown + -ment.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹaʊnmənt/

Noun

crownment

  1. (obsolete) The act of crowning; coronation.
    • 1697, Henry Rhodes, The Present State of Europe, volume 8, page 112:
      About the Crownment are thirteen little Boys with different Inſtruments, of which you may alſo diſcern the motion.
    • 1881, James Fawckner Nicholls; ‎John Taylor, Bristol Past and Present, volume 1, page 71:
      It was in the eleven hundredth and ninth year since our Lord came down upon earth, and in the ninth year of the King's crownment, that Robert, King Henry's son, was made first Earl of Gloucester by marrying the right heir—a man who for his good deeds deserves to be ever held in remembrance.
    • 1911, London Charivari, Punch Publications Limited, page 404:
      But this you are preparing in London, the Crownment of the King George and the Queen Mary, is the affair of the whole world.

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