Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The absence of nature or of the order of nature; the contrary of nature; that which is unnatural.
- To change or take away the nature of; endow with a different nature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The contrary of nature; that which is unnatural.
- transitive verb obsolete To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To change the
nature of; to invest with adifferent orcontrary nature. - noun That which is
contrary to nature; theunnatural .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Like the production as a whole, his Mad Hatter is an agreeably whimsical yet unsurprising assemblage, while Ms. Bonham Carter's absolute monarch is a force of unnature and a triumphant illogician.
'Alice': Half a Wonderland Joe Morgenstern 2010
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Like the production as a whole, his Mad Hatter is an agreeably whimsical yet unsurprising assemblage, while Ms. Bonham Carter's absolute monarch is a force of unnature and a triumphant illogician.
'Alice': Half a Wonderland Joe Morgenstern 2010
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Like the production as a whole, his Mad Hatter is an agreeably whimsical yet unsurprising assemblage, while Ms. Bonham Carter's absolute monarch is a force of unnature and a triumphant illogician.
'Alice': Half a Wonderland Joe Morgenstern 2010
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Like the production as a whole, his Mad Hatter is an agreeably whimsical yet unsurprising assemblage, while Ms. Bonham Carter's absolute monarch is a force of unnature and a triumphant illogician.
'Alice': Half a Wonderland Joe Morgenstern 2010
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There is always, not the less, the danger of his real nature, or rather unnature, breaking out in this way or that diabolical.
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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Almost as little could he endure the unnature as the untruth of what he heard.
There & Back George MacDonald 1864
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They said (and it is but fair to take a statement which appears on the face of all their writings; which is the one key-note on which they ring perpetual changes), that the cause of the Church in France was not that of humanity, but of inhumanity; not that of nature, but of unnature; not even that of grace, but of disgrace.
The Ancien Regime Charles Kingsley 1847
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