Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of state or dignity. To deprive of statehood; cause to cease to be a state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To deprive of state or dignity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
deprive ofstate ordignity . - verb transitive To withdraw (something previously stated); to
unsay orretract .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But a war without a plan and a vote to extend funding to give young soldiers the chance to die to fulfill some unstate objective to meet some political goal is a sad state of affairs.
Obama, Hillary Both Vote Against The No-Timelines Iraq Funding Bill 2009
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I would unstate myself, to be in a due resolution.
King Lear 2004
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I take the meaning to be rather this, _Do you frame the business_, who can act with less emotion; _I would unstate myself_; it would in me be a departure from the paternal character, _to be in a due resolution_, to be settled and composed on such an occasion.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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I would unstate myself, to be in a due resolution.
King Lear 1605
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I. ii.107 (333,9) I would unstate myself to be in a due resolution] [i.e. I will throw aside all consideration of my relation to him, that I may act as justice requires.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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