Descepter

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To deprive of a scepter; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority.

    "Shall the czar be desceptered, or shall the publishers and the reading public remain subject to his sway?"

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unscepterunsceptre

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"Shall the czar be desceptered, or shall the publishers and the reading public remain subject to his sway?"

Etymology

From de- + scepter.

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