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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unsphere.

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Examples

  • She leaned pensively on the little open casement, and in deep thought fixed her eyes on the heaven, whose blue unclouded concave was studded thick with stars, the worlds, perhaps, of spirits, unsphered of mortal mould.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • I could not think of this "unsphered angel wofully astray" without inward tears that dimmed the vision of my foreboding heart.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

  • If one were not a part of the season's fixed routine, one swung unsphered in a void of social non-existence.

    House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1899

  • And if it be either of these, shall we say that education has unsphered and unsexed her?

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

  • And the stars shall be unsphered and rejected from giving their light, as the New Jerusalem descends from God out of heaven.

    The Great Day of Wrath and of Glory John S. Long 1861

  • I have been quite unsphered since I have been here, in various ways, and have discovered how good every man's business is and how wide his horizon.

    Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis George William Curtis 1858

  • As neither of the gentlemen was a cavalier, Corny and his friend were totally unsphered by being mounted, the former on a lean, draggle-tailed pony, whose back swayed beneath its ponderous weight as if it would break in the middle, while the latter received practical instruction in the original mode of churning butter on the back of a tall, gaunt, and hungry-looking animal.

    Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p. 1847

  • I ask you only to go with us, and leave this miserable desert country, where there is no society, and where you are so entirely unsphered.

    Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p. 1847

  • The centre of the system waging daily more powerful, it more easily unsphered these feebler and mutually repulsive bodies.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 02: Introduction II John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • The centre of the system waging daily more powerful, it more easily unsphered these feebler and mutually repulsive bodies.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

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