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dispreparing

dispreparing is the present participle and gerund of disprepare.

Meaning of disprepare

Verb

disprepare (third-person singular simple present disprepares, present participle dispreparing, simple past and past participle disprepared)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To render unprepared.
    • obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavour by dark and erroneous doctrines to extinguish in them the light, both of nature and of the gospel, and so to disprepare them for the kingdom of God to come1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC

Questions about dispreparing

What is dispreparing the present participle and gerund of?
Dispreparing is the present participle and gerund of disprepare.

Words near dispreparing in the dictionary

  1. disprejudices
  2. disprejudicing
  3. disprepare
  4. disprepared
  5. disprepares
  6. dispreparing
  7. Disprin
  8. disprinced
  9. Disprins
  10. disprised
  11. disprison

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