Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To remove from its actual century.
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- verb rare, transitive To
remove from its actualcentury .
Etymologies
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un- + century
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Examples
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The bitterness that pervades its pages may seem regrettable to those who have never passed through the like experiences, but if the reader will "uncentury" himself for a moment and try to realize the position of the old slaveholders, a proud and masterful race, on seeing bands of their former slaves marching in triumph through their streets, he may perhaps understand our feelings sufficiently to admit that they were, to say the least, not unnatural.
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To do that, and rest in the contemplation, it has first to uncentury itself.
Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874
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