coronation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CORONATION, noun [a crown.] 1. The act or solemnity of crowning a king or emperor; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty. 2. The pomp or assembly attending a coronation CORONATION-oath, the oath taken by a king at his coronation
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