investitureformal
usually disapproving
an occasion when someone is chosen for an important job without having to win an election or other competition:
If nobody else stands against him this won't be a vote, it will be a coronation.
The inscription commemorates George III's coronation in 1809.
My grandmother remembers the Coronation in 1954.
This is not a coronation; he has to earn this position.
We believe that a coronation that excludes party members from having a say will be inconsistent with the proud democratic traditions of our party.

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Examples from literature

And now we must prepare for the coronation. 
He sat, too, for his coronation portrait, as it was called, in Buckingham Palace. 
King Henry II., of England, crowned his son as king, and on the day of coronation put on a servant's garb and waited, he, the king, at the son's table, to the astonishment of all the princes. 
On the occasion of the coronation his Majesty made magnificent presents to the metropolitan church. 
The churches, the chimes, the palace, the coronation chapel, and the street scenes are enough to drive one mad with interest. 
The famous British coronation pictures were superb and they gained immensely by the rich color effects. 

coronation | American Dictionary

coronation
noun[ C ]
us/ˌkɔr·əˈneɪ·ʃən, ˌkɑr-/
a ceremony at which a person is made king or queen

Examples of coronation

coronation
The importance of the coronation ceremony was taken for granted in much of the polemic from 1554.
The 1993 coronation was an impressive theatrical display of recovered statehood.
These were set forth at the beginning of each reign, in manifestos, panegyrics, and ceremonies, culminating with the imperial coronation.
Documents such as the coronation charter, however, would be delivered separately to each shire court by messengers sent from the king himself.
About the coronation ceremony itself, however, the commentators all agreed.
Even when she was crowned separately from her husband, the arrangement of ceremonies closely echoed those of the four days of a king's coronation.
These and the royal palaces, examples of which are known at several centres, are linked in the documentary sources with coronation rituals.
The coronation ceremony was by its nature and intent adaptive to circumstances.
At coronations, platforms were erected for the singers beside the ambo.
In her coronation at least, she was indeed as much a monarch as her male forbears, but for that she again wore her hair loose.
Among the grandest and most solemn ceremonies celebrated in the abbey were coronations.
Even royal anointment by coronation, it seemed, was powerful according to the gender of the recipient.
Generally the illustrations are of a symbolic nature and fall into a limbo between the textual prescription and the ceremony of coronation as performed.
Protectorate officials, mindful of the need for strong authority and the proximity of the coronation, refused to extend their deadline.
On this topic, also, rumour and anxiety abounded, although there were never any formal, public proposals for such a coronation.
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