thronedom

English

Etymology

throne +‎ -dom

Noun

thronedom (countable and uncountable, plural thronedoms)

1. (countable) A realm; a kingdom, principality, etc.
   • 1832, Robert Taylor, Natural history of religion, page 81:

     In Scripture, we read of thronedoms and principalities ; of the angelic hosts.

   • 1855, Mrs. Thulia Susannah Henderson, Olga, Or Russia in the Tenth Century: An Historical Poem, page 226:

     The thronedom of Bulgaria once secured, Our conquering arms shall further southward tend ;

   • 1993, D. V. Randall, Once Upon the Eighth Day: A Romance of an Industrial Theocracy:

     First, he consolidated his thronedom.

2. (uncountable) Sovereignty.
   • 1852, Emigration, in its moral and religious aspects. A sermon, etc, page 15:

     Well, my dear friends, aspire to this spiritual thronedom: subdue your own heart, and become a king of men.

   • 1855, Fanny Mayne, The Life of Nicholas I., Emperor of Russia, page 129:

     But the Western Powers, and Great Britain especially, had ever taken Turkey under their nominal protection ; at any rate, they would not quietly sit by and see Russia seize upon that key to the thronedom of the world without a word.

   • 1927, The Photographic Journal:

     You must remember that within a very few years — in fact, within the memory of each one of us — this child of yours has sprung from the gutter to the thronedom of kings, and for that reason only you should get him back into your fold.

   • 1934, The Spectator - Volume 132, page 5:

     Though his observation was occasioned on the ascension of one historic house to an European thronedom after centuries of struggle with an entrenched rival, it is a truism as surely applicable to individual as to nation, clan or institution.

3. A position of dominance; ascendancy.
   • 1839, Miss Sarah Wilkinson, Historical reveries, page 109:

     Better I ween the harmlessness that passeth on its path, In the quiet light of the inner sight where deep thought thronedom hath ;

   • 1902, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate, Journal, page 480:

     it is made known to her that an ideal husband and father whose home was to him a sacred temple, and who, in the thronedom of his heart sate his devoted wife and two children and their progeny only one seat below that which in loving faith he gave the Christ; and in that home a great State who loved his history would hereby leave memoriam.

   • 1939, Fame, page 269:

     The return of the fresh little splinter of wood to the thronedom of radio was not accomplished as easily as his victory of last year, but he did manage to stay a comfortable span ahead of Jack Benny, his closest competitor.