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1575 U. Fulwell Flower of Fame f. 15 As he passed through the streates, vnto the crowning place: Eche man erectes his cheerefull voyce.

1660 J. Mullinax Symplegades Antrum 55 Great Monarch live, we humbly waite and pray To see thy happy, blessed, Crowning day.

1736 R. Erskine Paraphr. Song of Solomon 87 His wedding and his crowning Day Their pompous Joys unite.

1813 E. S. Barrett Heroine III. xlv. 265 The crowning ceremony was merely to amuse her guests at my expence.

1829 R. Southey All for Love iv. 46 On the Crowning-day..A gay procession, take..their way.

1859 R. Buchanan James I. of Scotl. i. iv, in Tragic Dramas from Hist. (1868) I. 142 In breach thy bond and crowning oath,..thou hast..Our wholesome, antient, home-born usages, For light imported fopperies annulled.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. 1st Ser. viii. 211 He chose Soissons for his crowning-place.

1917 Rotarian Aug. 126 Last come, we will be the last to stay, Till Right has had her crowning day.

1958 S. Runciman Sicilian Vespers iii. 49 A few days later he was solemnly crowned there, in the traditional crowning-place of the Emperors.

2004 C. L. Connor Women of Byzantium i. iii. 54 A significant innovation on her coinage..is the appearance on the obverses of a hand with a wreath hovering above her head, a divine crowning motif.

2006 J. S. Gaab Munich (2008) iii. 34 Ludwig refused to attend the crowning ceremony for his grandfather in the Hall of Mirrors.