coronation

UK /kɒɹəˈneɪʃn̩/ US /ˌkɔɹəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
noun 5name 2

Definitions

noun

1

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

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.

3

A completion or culmination of something.

4

A success in the face of little or no opposition.

5

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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