depulsion

English

Etymology

Latin depulsio.

Noun

depulsion (uncountable)

  1. expulsion or repulsion.
    • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Henrie the Sixth, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 94, page 672, column 2:
      Shee [Margaret of Anjou] vvas his vvife tvventie ſixe yeeres, and tvventie nine daies: and (after her husbands depulſion from his regall throne) her forces being vanquiſhed at the battell of Tevvksburie, in a poore religious houſe, vvhether ſhee had fled for the ſafetie of her life, vvas taken priſoner, […]

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