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unsaint

unsaint verb: to deprive of sainthood.

Verb

unsaint (third-person singular simple present unsaints, present participle unsainting, simple past and past participle unsainted)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of sainthood.
    • the Jews , like the Men here of late , for ever unsainting all the World1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London

Forms of unsaint

third-person singular presentunsaints
present participleunsainting
past participleunsainted
pastunsainted

Origin of unsaint

From un- + saint.

Questions about unsaint

What does unsaint mean?
Unsaint means to deprive of sainthood.
What part of speech is unsaint?
Unsaint is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsaint?
The past tense of unsaint is unsainted.

Words near unsaint in the dictionary

  1. unsailable
  2. unsailed
  3. unsailorlike
  4. unsailorly
  5. unsained
  6. unsaint
  7. unsainted
  8. unsainting
  9. unsaintlike
  10. unsaintliness
  11. unsaintly

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