unshrinev.
transitive. To remove from, cast out of, a shrine. Also figurative.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > from specific places or positions
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1599 Life Sir T. More in C. Wordsworth Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 181 We have of late unshrined him [sc. Thomas of Canterbury].
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 230 The image of Apollo Chomeus being displaced, unshrined, and brought to Rome.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila vii. xvii. 97 Could'st Thou.., from each golden Cell, unshrine Those Beams.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ix. 345 Descartes..Unshrines old errors and propounds his own.
1827 T. Carlyle Musæus in German Romance I. 5 Musäus grasped his satirical hammer; and with lusty strokes, defaced and unshrined the false divinity.
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