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unnature en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + nature.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) That which is contrary to nature; the unnatural.
   • So as to be rather unnature, after all, than nature. 1858, Horace Bushnell, Nature and the Supernatural:

unnature en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + nature.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature.
   • A right heavenly nature, indeed, as it were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them [the elements]. a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

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