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unsurplicing

unsurplicing is the present participle and gerund of unsurplice.

Meaning of unsurplice

Verb

unsurplice (third-person singular simple present unsurplices, present participle unsurplicing, simple past and past participle unsurpliced)

  1. (transitive) To remove the surplice (and associated religious status) from.
    • If a Wesleyan member in Parliament has the power to unsurplice the priests and deacons of the Church of England, the member of the Church of England may hang the cope upon the shoulders of the Conference.1845, The Quarterly Review (London), volume 161, page 482

Questions about unsurplicing

What is unsurplicing the present participle and gerund of?
Unsurplicing is the present participle and gerund of unsurplice.

Words near unsurplicing in the dictionary

  1. unsurpassedness
  2. unsurpassing
  3. unsurplice
  4. unsurpliced
  5. unsurplices
  6. unsurplicing
  7. unsurprisable
  8. unsurprise
  9. unsurprised
  10. unsurprisedly
  11. unsurprisedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsurplicing (page history and authors); unsurplice (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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