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unpreaching

unpreaching is the present participle and gerund of unpreach.

Meaning of unpreach

Verb

unpreach (third-person singular simple present unpreaches, present participle unpreaching, simple past and past participle unpreached)

  1. (transitive) To undo or overthrow (something) by preaching; to revoke (something preached before).
    • The clergy their own principles denied: Unpreach'd their non-resisting cant, and pray'd / Their liberty and property's so dear1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], “(please specify the page)”, in The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], →OCLC

Adjective

unpreaching (not comparable)

  1. That does not preach.
    • an unpreaching minister

Questions about unpreaching

What does unpreaching mean?
Unpreaching means that does not preach.
What is unpreaching the present participle and gerund of?
Unpreaching is the present participle and gerund of unpreach.
What part of speech is unpreaching?
Unpreaching is an adjective.

Words near unpreaching in the dictionary

  1. unprays
  2. unpreach
  3. unpreachable
  4. unpreached
  5. unpreaches
  6. unpreaching
  7. unpreachy
  8. unprecarious
  9. unprecautioned
  10. unpreceded
  11. unprecedent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpreaching (page history and authors); unpreach (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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