unlight
unlight verb: to extinguish, turn off, or dim the light from.
Verb (1)
unlight (third-person singular simple present unlights, present participle unlighting, simple past and past participle unlighted or unlit)
- To extinguish, turn off, or dim the light from
- His father, in another room, unlights the lamp and leaves the world alone.2002, Ilya Kaminsky, Ilya Kaminsky Greatest Hits
- Remember Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first Star Wars film? At one point in the big duel, he unlights his light sabre and stands defenseless but confident before Darth Vader, saying sonorously, “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”2005, Conrad H. Gempf, Mealtime Habits of the Messiah
Noun
unlight (plural unlights)
- The absence of light; darkness.
- Those of the Unlight is probably Marduk's most traditional black metal recording, and one of my personal favorites.2008, Daniel Ekeroth, Swedish Death Metal, Bazillion Points Books, →ISBN, page 255
- "The door will only open when you strike it under the unlight of a moon at full dark. And the moon is many days from full dark now." Corydon gasped.2009, Tobias Druitt, Corydon and the Island of Monsters, Yearling, →ISBN, page 104
Verb (2)
unlight (third-person singular simple present unlights, present participle unlighting, simple past and past participle unlighted)
- To alight; dismount
- I would rather take the water unmixed," said I. "Just as you like," said the old soldier; "but please to unlight, and come into my barracks, at all events."1838, Edward Lanzer Joseph, Warner Arundell the adventures of a creole
- Unlight, unlight, you gay Lady Unlight of your middle quite speed Deliver it unto me For I seems it looks too rich and too gay To melder all in the salt sea.2015, Bertrand Harris Bronson, The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads
Adjective
unlight
- Not light (“having little weight”).
- And thought to bere him doun; With a launce unlight, He smote him in the lyoun; And Tristrem that was wight […]1821, Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet, page 58
- Heavy shoulders, of a burden so unlight. Yet because of you, I can see your way through. To now I see through the darkness, with your light. By making my heavy burdens so light. And so my spirit, and my soul, are so bright.2018, Runas C. Powers III, A Right to Write, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Examples of unlight in a sentence
- It would be so easy to trace Ian's death back to that match, the one he said he would not unlight if he could.2012, Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Vintage, →ISBN, page 154:
- The unlight which blackensss and ssscarsss!” “These men, are they a threat to us?2012, EJ Spurrell, Children of the Halo: Engines of Creation 1, EJ Spurrell, page 152:
- […] solidarity to the beings of the unlight, but apart from that, they avoid them.2019, Bernadette von Dreien, Hilary Snellgrove, Christina, Book 2: The Vision of the Good, Govinda-Verlag, →ISBN:
- Luthan chokes again, coughing up more blood, and for the first time Oriana sees the unlight.2020, A.F.E. Smith, Dawn Rising, IronWright Books, →ISBN:
Forms of unlight
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | unlights |
| present participle | unlighting |
| past participle | unlighted |
| past | unlighted |
| past participle | unlit |
| past | unlit |
| Noun | |
| plural | unlights |
Origin of unlight
From un- + light or, in the case of the verb, perhaps from Middle English *unlighten (suggested by past participle unlight, unlyght, unliȝt (“unlit”)), equivalent to un- + light.
From Middle English unlighten (“to lighten the burden of; alleviate; dismount from horseback”), equivalent to un- + light (“to alight”).
From Middle English unlight, unlyght, unliȝt (“not light (in weight)”), equivalent to un- + light.
Questions about unlight
- What does unlight mean?
- Unlight means to extinguish, turn off, or dim the light from.
- How do you use unlight in a sentence?
- It would be so easy to trace Ian's death back to that match, the one he said he would not unlight if he could.
- What part of speech is unlight?
- Unlight can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.
- What is the past tense of unlight?
- The past tense of unlight is unlighted.
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