Entitlement vs Throne - What's the difference?
entitlement | throne |
The right to have something.
Something that one is entitled to.
(politics) A legal obligation on a government to make payments to a person, business, or unit of government that meets the criteria set in law, such as social security in the US.
The ornate seat a king or queen sits on for formal occasions, usually placed on a raised dais in the throne room.
* He approached the throne reverently.
The formal position of a sovereign.
* Bible, Genesis xli. 40
* Tennyson
(colloquial) The lavatory or toilet.
* She’s on the throne .
(Biblical tradition) The third highest order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
* Young
(music) A type of stool used by drummers.
(figuratively) The leadership.
(archaic) To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
(archaic) To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.
* (rfdate) Milton
(archaic) To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.
As nouns the difference between entitlement and throne
is that entitlement is the right to have something while throne is the ornate seat a king or queen sits on for formal occasions, usually placed on a raised dais in the throne room.As a verb throne is
to place on a royal seat; to enthrone.entitlement
English
Noun
(en noun)throne
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(Thrones)Noun
(en noun)- Only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
- To mould a mighty state's decrees, / And shape the whisper of the throne .
- Great Sire! whom thrones celestial ceaseless sing.
Derived terms
* power behind the throne * thronal * throneshipVerb
(thron)- True image of the Father, whether throned / In the bosom of bliss, and light of light.