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incoronate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ɪŋˈkɒɹənət/

Etymology

First attested in 1855; either borrowed from Italian incoronato or Latin incorōnātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + coronate.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, poetic, rare) Crowned.
    • I was a novice in this state, / When I saw hither come a Mighty One, / With sign of victory incoronate. 1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 22, lines 52–54: