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  • verb Present participle of unmitre.

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Examples

  • It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, and the removing him from off the presbyterian shoulders, that will make us a happy nation.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, and the removing him from off the presbyterian shoulders, that will make us a happy nation.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • It is not, he cried, 'the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, that will make us a happy nation,' but the practice of virtue, and virtue means freedom to choose.

    Obiter Dicta Second Series Augustine Birrell 1891

  • It is not the unfrocking of a Priest, the unmitring of a Bishop, and the removing him from off the Presbyterian shoulders, that will make us a happy nation.

    The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

  • It is not the unfrocking of a Priest, the unmitring of a Bishop, and the removing him from off the Presbyterian shoulders, that will make us a happy nation.

    The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

  • It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, and the removing him from off the presbyterian shoulders, that will make us a happy nation.

    Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England John Milton 1641

  • It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, and the removing him from off the Presbyterian shoulders, that will make us a happy nation; no, if other things as great in the Church, and in the rule of life, both economical and political, be not looked into and reformed, we have looked so long upon the blaze that Zuinglius and Calvin have beaconed up to us, that we are stark blind.

    A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1843

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