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unpeer en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + peer.

Meanings

1. (historical, rare, transitive) To remove from peerage; relinquish one's peerdom.
   • When the Earl of Selborne died, who as Sir Roundell Palmer had been made Lord Chancellor, his son, a prominent M.P., declared he would not go to the Upper House, that he would unpeer himself. 1906, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 98, page 793:
   • […] not that he thought it a degradation for peers to sit in the House of Commons, but it was a degradation to the peers of Scotland to give them liberty to unpeer themselves, and to descend from the order to which they belonged. 1829, The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time:
   • […] to destroy the king and parliament; disinherit his royal posterity; unpeer all the lords, and level them with the dust; […] 1763, The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England:

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