Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To divest of the divine attributes or qualities, real or supposed; divest of divinity; undeify. To deprive of a god, or cause to recognize no god; make atheistical or godless.
  • A Middle English form of ungood.

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

  • transitive verb rare To deprive of divinity; to undeify.
  • transitive verb rare To cause to recognize no god; to deprive of a god; to make atheistical.

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

  • verb transitive To divest of a god; to atheize.
  • verb transitive To divest of godly powers; to strip of divinity.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ god. Compare Dutch ontgoden, German entgöttern.

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