unrequire en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + require.
Meanings
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(transitive) To cancel the requirement for; to make something that is required into something that is not required.
To start with, as someone who believes that Shakespeare's work does have inherent greatness and wants others to experience and enjoy those works, I would celebrate any decision to unrequire Shakespeare.
2007, Ralph Alan Cohen, ShakesFear and how to Cure it: A Handbook for Teaching Shakespeare, →ISBN:This tool is available in the Unhide All flyout and is used to unrequire all the objects that were made required.
2013, Up and Running with Autodesk Navisworks 2014, →ISBN, page i:[…] today Colt's supremacy has been unrequiring the use of optical instruments.
1922, Ordnance - Volumes 3-4, page 272:Being Auxorean, I unrequire artificial aids, but for you a booster.
1966, Galaxy Science Fiction - Volume 25, page 94:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unrequiring | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unrequires | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| unrequired | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unrequired | Tense=Past | lexicographic |