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unpreach en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + preach.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To undo or overthrow (something) by preaching; to revoke (something preached before).
   • [Y]et for a priest of the Church of England, […] to show the white feather in the hour of need, is to unpreach in one minute all that he had been preaching his life-long. 1855, Charles Kingsley, “How They Took the Pearls at Margarita”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 269:
   • The clergy their own principles denied: Unpreach'd their non-resisting cant, and pray'd / Their liberty and property's so dear 1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], “(please specify the page)”, in The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], →OCLC:

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