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ungenerate

ungenerate adjective: not created; ungenerated.

Adjective

ungenerate (comparative more ungenerate, superlative most ungenerate)

  1. Not created; ungenerated.
    • To my mind that theory will be best which is most liberal in defending the right to life of ungenerate unicorns; I think that, as not everything we speak of is in the real world, so not everything we fail to find there is entirely out of it.2001, Eva T. H. Brann, The Ways of Naysaying: No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing, page 81
    • In his Answer to Eunomius' Second Book, Gregory tells us that Eunomius, a Neo-Arian, claims that because the Son is begotten and the Father unbegotten or ungenerate they differ in essence, leaving the Son less than fully divine, not "of equal honor" with the Father but inferior in power, dignity...2001, The Journal of Neoplatonic Studies - Volume 9, page 17

Verb

ungenerate (third-person singular simple present ungenerates, present participle ungenerating, simple past and past participle ungenerated)

  1. To undo the act of generation; to uncreate.
    • Sensible people, says Madam Gamidge, are astonished to see how people with a title forgets themselves, as if the man that got the money, that bought the title, was not a better man than they that have it for nothing; but everthing here in this world ungenerates.1788, Robert Bage, James Wallace
    • The ninety-nine savages would reply—"we don't want what you have created, this increased fertility, &c., &c., &c.; if you choose, reduce the land of your farm to its original state; ungenerate the fruits and grasses; but have it we must ; you are an usurper; you want to establish private property.”1839, New Moral World, page 803

Forms of ungenerate

Adjective
comparativemore ungenerate
superlativemost ungenerate
Verb
third-person singular presentungenerates
present participleungenerating
past participleungenerated
pastungenerated

Origin of ungenerate

From un- + generate.

Questions about ungenerate

What does ungenerate mean?
Ungenerate means not created; ungenerated.
What part of speech is ungenerate?
Ungenerate can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near ungenerate in the dictionary

  1. ungeneralisable
  2. ungeneralised
  3. ungeneralizable
  4. ungeneralized
  5. ungeneralled
  6. ungenerate
  7. ungenerated
  8. ungenerates
  9. ungenerating
  10. ungenerative
  11. ungeneric

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