单词 | unnation |
释义 | unnationv. Now rare. transitive. To deprive of the status of a nation; to deprive of nationality. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > [verb (transitive)] > deprive of status of nation unnation1644 1644 W. Prynne Full Reply Observ. Prynnes Twelve Questions 8 Will any..suffer such a Government to take root among them, which will un-King, un-Parliament, un-church, un-Nation them altogether? 1646 W. Price Mans Delinquencie 39 Wee have deserved to be un-nation'd, un-Church'd by a Bill of divorce from heaven. 1715 P. Abercromby Martial Atchievem. Scots Nation II. i. 108 He not only unkinged himself..but also unnationed a Kingdom. 1846 ‘J. Hampden Jr.’ Aristocracy of Eng. xviii. 191 Poland had been first unnationed by its aristocrats, and then dismembered by its vulture neighbours. 1973 Life Lines 3 Oct. 1/1 Henry Kissinger is Secretary of State of that nation-state to be, as it were, un-nationed and destated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1644 |
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