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unmiter

unmiter is the alternative form of unmitre.

Meaning of unmitre

Verb

unmitre (third-person singular simple present unmitres, present participle unmitring, simple past and past participle unmitred)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of a mitre; to depose from the rank of bishop.
    • It is not the unfrocking of a Priest , the unmitring of a Bishop1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC

Forms of unmiter

third-person singular presentunmiters
present participleunmitering
past participleunmitered
pastunmitered

Questions about unmiter

What is unmiter the alternative form of?
Unmiter is the alternative form of unmitre.

Words near unmiter in the dictionary

  1. unmistrustful
  2. unmistrusting
  3. unmists
  4. unmisty
  5. unmisunderstandable
  6. unmiter
  7. unmitered
  8. unmitering
  9. unmiters
  10. unmitigable
  11. unmitigably

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unmiter (page history and authors); unmitre (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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