coronation

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12
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15
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/kɒɹəˈneɪʃn̩/
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/kɒɹəˈneɪʃn̩/ · /ˌkɔɹəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ · /ˌkɑ-/

Definition of coronation

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (also, attributive, literally)An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.
    “[A]nd if vvee be Spouſes of this Bridegroom [Jesus], vvee cannot but (as vvee are exhorted) rejoyce in that the marriage of the Lambe is come, and the day of our ovvn coronation vvith an incorruptible Crovvn of glory.”
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noun

  1. (also, attributive, literally)An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.
    “[A]nd if vvee be Spouſes of this Bridegroom [Jesus], vvee cannot but (as vvee are exhorted) rejoyce in that the marriage of the Lambe is come, and the day of our ovvn coronation vvith an incorruptible Crovvn of glory.”
  2. (also, attributive, literally, specifically)An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.
    “King Charles III’s coronation is to be much less elaborate compared to his mother’s.”
    “Some reaſons of this double Corronation / I haue poſſeſſt you vvith, and thinke them ſtrong.”
    “[John] Fal[staff]. VVhat diſeaſe haſt thou? / [Peter] Bul[lcalf]. A horſon cold ſir, a cough ſir, vvhich I cought vvith ringing in the Kings affaires vpon his coronation day ſir.”
    “[T]he Lady Anne, / VVhom the King hath in ſecrecie long married, / This day vvas vievv'd in open, as his Queene, / Going to Chappell; and the voyce is novv / Onely about her Corronation.”
  3. (figuratively)A completion or culmination of something.
  4. (figuratively)A success in the face of little or no opposition.
  5. (rare)In the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward.
    “Here, the huffing of Miss Bella and the loss of three of her men at a swoop, aggravated by the coronation of an opponent, led to that young lady's jerking the draught-board and pieces off the table: which her sister went down on her knees to pick up.”

name

  1. A town in Alberta, Canada.
  2. A settlement in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.

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Etymology

From Late Middle English coronacion, coronacioun (“crowning of a sovereign or his consort; powers conferred by this ceremony; crowning of the Virgin Mary; (figuratively) placing of a crown of thorns…

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From Late Middle English coronacion, coronacioun (“crowning of a sovereign or his consort; powers conferred by this ceremony; crowning of the Virgin Mary; (figuratively) placing of a crown of thorns on Jesus; act of rewarding a person with eternal life, happiness, honour, etc.”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman coronacion and Old French coronacion, coronation, from Late Latin *corōnātiōnem, from Latin corōnō (“to coronate, crown (with a crown, garland, etc.)”) + -ātiōnem (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). Corōnō is derived from corōna (“garland, wreath; crown”).

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