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unpeace en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- (“absence or lack of”) + peace. Compare unfrith.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The absence of peace; peacelessness.
    • We held with hym ther he saide leasse, / and therfor haue we all vnpeasse. 15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6, lines 158–159:
    • The name signifies 'unpeace, feud'" 1998, Robert E. Bjork, John D. Niles, A Beowulf Handbook:
    • Howe shulde ever goodnesse of peace have ben knowe, but if unpeace somtyme reigne, and mokel yvel wrothe? c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love:
    • The power of love opposes the violence of unpeace. 1999, Inner land: A Guide Into the Heart of the Gospel:
    • Indeed, I readily see "unpeace" in myself. I violate peace not only in hasty words or angry attitudes but also in failing to be the reconciler Jesus calls his followers to be. So much of our culture's unpeace arises because of greed, our proliferating needs and wants. 2001, Marva J. Dawn, Karen Dismer, Morning by Morning:
    • We were Christians; Christians living in a state of undivorce, yet striving to keep the marriage together while living in great unpeace and disharmony. 1978, Helen Kooiman Hosier, The other side of divorce, page 13: