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unend en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

From un- (prefix denoting reversal) + end (verb).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To undo or reverse the end or ending of
   • Indeterminacy of texts and interpretation, that is, puncturing any tendency to lock texts and their interpretation into exactitude. The task of the hermeneute is to unend the interpretation as no interpretation is fixed. 2016, Oral A. W. Thomas, Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics Within a Caribbean Context:
   • Rather, it interrupts every origin and end, every essence and form, unends every end. 1996, Stephen David Ross, The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art:
   • [...] it was more likely that Aunt Lily still was not surfeit of her 60's attire, ignored every clothes brokerage for it, still wore it to unend an era she had a deeply personal attachment to, for no other reason than that her newlywed days had also blossomed at that time. 2009, William Penn, Love in The Time of Flowers:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
unending	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
unended	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
unended	Tense=Past		lexicographic
unends	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic

unend en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From un- (“lack of”) + end (noun).

Meanings

1. (countable, nonstandard, uncountable) Absence or lack of ending; continuation; infinity
   • She listened and listened to unend. 2016, Vicky Glasgow, The Mage Emperor:
   • First halves of life are oft' spent spending—on / Unends of refuse, you seldom will use. 2010, Alfred Colo, Laughing Matters:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
unends	Number=Plur		lexicographic