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unpeer

unpeer verb: to remove from peerage; relinquish one's peerdom.

Verb

unpeer (third-person singular simple present unpeers, present participle unpeering, simple past and past participle unpeered)

  1. (historical, rare, transitive) To remove from peerage; relinquish one's peerdom.
    • […] to destroy the king and parliament; disinherit his royal posterity; unpeer all the lords, and level them with the dust; […]1763, The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England
    • […] not that he thought it a degradation for peers to sit in the House of Commons, but it was a degradation to the peers of Scotland to give them liberty to unpeer themselves, and to descend from the order to which they belonged.1829, The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time

Forms of unpeer

third-person singular presentunpeers
present participleunpeering
past participleunpeered
pastunpeered

Origin of unpeer

From un- + peer.

Questions about unpeer

What does unpeer mean?
Unpeer means to remove from peerage; relinquish one's peerdom.
What part of speech is unpeer?
Unpeer is a verb.
What is the past tense of unpeer?
The past tense of unpeer is unpeered.

Words near unpeer in the dictionary

  1. unpeel
  2. unpeelable
  3. unpeeled
  4. unpeeling
  5. unpeels
  6. unpeer
  7. unpeerable
  8. unpeered
  9. unpeeved
  10. unpeevish
  11. unpeg

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