Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deprive of a sister; separate, as sisters.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Poetic & R. To separate, as sisters; to disjoin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, poetic, obsolete To separate, as sisters; to disjoin.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ sister

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Examples

  • Ay, that was in her hour of joy; there will be plenty to sunder and unsister them again: this Gardiner for one, who is to be made Lord Chancellor, and will pounce like a wild beast out of his cage to worry Cranmer.

    Queen Mary and Harold Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

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