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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Coronation \Cor`o*na"tion\ (k?r`?-n?"sh?n), n. [See {Coronate}.] 1. The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty. 2. The pomp or assembly at a coronation. --Pope. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: coronation n : the ceremony of installing a new monarch [syn: {enthronement}, {enthronization}, {investiture}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: CORONATION, n. The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
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