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unsainting

unsainting is the present participle and gerund of unsaint.

Meaning of unsaint

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

Questions about unsainting

What is unsainting the present participle and gerund of?
Unsainting is the present participle and gerund of unsaint.

Words near unsainting in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsainting (page history and authors); unsaint (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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