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• Guilt to unmake, and Plots annihilate, Is much a greater work than to create. —  Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden
• 'Twere to unmake, to take away the will Adam. —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05
• It isn't well to make up our minds fully until we have heard all sides, lest we have them to unmake, which is always more or less painful Notwithstanding the peculiar merits of the stone walls, the coming house,--the house that is to embody all the comforts and amenities of civilized life,--the house of safe and economic construction, well warmed, well ventilated, defiant alike of flood, frosty and fire,--the millennial house, if you please, will doubtless be a brick one. —  Homes and How to Make Them
• "As no being can unmake or materially change himself (at least none can annihilate himself) so God is unchangeable, for no Being God made can change him and no other Being can exist but what God made 17. —  Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever
• And then for her To win the Moor,--were't to renounce his baptism, All seals and symbols of redeemed sin His soul is so enfetter'd to her love That she may make, unmake, do what she list, Even as her appetite shall play the god With his weak function. —  Othello

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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