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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
untune .
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Examples
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It untunes and unframes the heart itself, by entangling its affections.
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967
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But power dwells with cheerfulness; hope puts us in a working mood, whilst despair is no muse, and untunes the active powers.
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[FN#282] i.e. As she untunes the lute by "pinching" the strings over-excitedly with her right, her other hand retunes it by turning the pegs.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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It is the wound in the affections which untunes the jarring senses of 'this _child-changed father_.'
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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Every impulse of bad health jars or untunes some string in the fine harp of human volition; and because a man cannot be a moral being but in the proportion of his free action, therefore it is clear that no man can be in a high sense moral, except in so far as through health he commands his bodily powers, and is not commanded by them.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Discontent disjoints the soul, it untunes the heart for duty.
The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 1653
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When sorrow is indisposing, it untunes the heart for prayer, meditation, holy conference; it cloisters up the soul.
The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 1653
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