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Webster 1913 Edition
Unpray
Un-pray
,Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+ pray
.] To revoke or annul by prayer, as something previously prayed for.
[R.]
Sir M. Hale.
Definition 2024
unpray
unpray
English
Verb
unpray (third-person singular simple present unprays, present participle unpraying, simple past and past participle unprayed)
- To revoke or annul (something previously prayed for) by prayer.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- he found himselfe overwhelmed in the injoying of his desire, and being enrich't with an intolerable commoditie, he must now unpray his prayers […].
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir M. Hale to this entry?)
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12: