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undevilled

undevilled is the simple past and past participle of undevil.

Meaning of undevil

Verb

undevil (third-person singular simple present undevils, present participle (US) undeviling or (UK) undevilling, simple past and past participle (US) undeviled or (UK) undevilled)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise or to make less devilish.
    • The boy having gotten a habit of counterfeiting […] would not be undevilled by all their exorcisms.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

Questions about undevilled

What is undevilled the simple past and past participle of?
Undevilled is the simple past and past participle of undevil.

Words near undevilled in the dictionary

  1. undevigintillions
  2. undevil
  3. undeviled
  4. undeviling
  5. undevilish
  6. undevilled
  7. undevilling
  8. undevils
  9. undevious
  10. undeviously
  11. undeviousness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undevilled (page history and authors); undevil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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