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unlettering

unlettering noun: the removal of a letter or letters.

Noun

unlettering (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The removal of a letter or letters.
    • Since what binds the spirit is the letter, the explosion of bound spirit is the unlettering of the letter, but since the unlettering depends on the lettering, and since in fact the fragment does not claim that the explosion puts an end to the being-bound of spirit, the explosion of bound spirit is...2000, Jeffrey S. Librett, The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue, page 319
    • Because the child bases her repudiation of Hester on the absence of the scarlet letter, we must begin by considering the significance of that “unlettering.”2014, Richard H. Millington, Practicing Romance, page 90

Questions about unlettering

What does unlettering mean?
Unlettering means the removal of a letter or letters.
What part of speech is unlettering?
Unlettering is a noun.

Words near unlettering in the dictionary

  1. unlethal
  2. unlettable
  3. unletted
  4. unlettered
  5. unletteredness
  6. unlettering
  7. unletterlike
  8. unlevel
  9. unleveled
  10. unleveling
  11. unlevelized

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