Definition of "overthrowal" [overthrowal]

• The act of overthrowing something or someone. (noun)

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• "Responsible government within their own Colony would lead to the "overthrowal" of that Empire, and the reduction of Britain to a "second-rate Power.""
• "And not so much an overthrowal as an infiltration and reform."
• "What there was most distressing to him was the overthrowal of the Church, and he did not hesitate, in very striking fashion, to connect revolutionary opinion with infidelity."