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unpurpled

unpurpled is the simple past and past participle of unpurple.

Meaning of unpurple

Verb

unpurple (third-person singular simple present unpurples, present participle unpurpling, simple past and past participle unpurpled)

  1. To (cause to) cease to be purple.
    • As some clown drunk with fumes of trodden wine,a. 1895, John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley), The Death of Phaethon, in The Collected Poems of Lord De Tabley (1903), page 396

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Adjective

unpurpled (not comparable)

  1. Not having been purpled, not having been made purple (in colour, in imperial majesty, etc).
    • Plucking him from his Ghettos, He has mounted him on thrones unpurpled, but golden, there to press hands on the Exchequer of the nations, arbiter of peace,1893, The Universalist Quarterly and General Review

Questions about unpurpled

What does unpurpled mean?
Unpurpled means not having been purpled, not having been made purple (in colour, in imperial majesty, etc).
What is unpurpled the simple past and past participle of?
Unpurpled is the simple past and past participle of unpurple.
What part of speech is unpurpled?
Unpurpled is an adjective.

Words near unpurpled in the dictionary

  1. unpuritanically
  2. unpurled
  3. unpurliteness
  4. unpurloined
  5. unpurple
  6. unpurpled
  7. unpurples
  8. unpurpling
  9. unpurpose
  10. unpurposed
  11. unpurposeful

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