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unspell - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
To release from the power of a spell or enchantment; disenchant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
transitive verb rare To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
verb transitive To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell ; to disenchant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb release from a spell
Etymologies
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un- + spell
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Examples
But before his very real and unethereal, unspell -cast knife could strike, the little gnome delivered a punch line that caught the assassin square in his funny bone.
Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001
Hereupon the King let unbind the youth and sent him to jail; then he said to Abu Niyyah, "Wouldst thou go at once to my daughter and unspell her from the Jinni?"
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
To unspell her brother, Mylla needs Alard's protection, but dares not trust him with the full truth, for fear of being accused as a witch herself.
EVIL EDITOR 2008
Whoever in going over this bridge uttered a certain word, could unspell her if he would afterwards allow her to walk beside him the rest of the way over the bridge without speaking; but the difficulty was that nobody knew what the powerful word was. [
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887
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