unto
/ˈʌntʊ
/preposition
1 Archaic term for to. do unto others as you would have them do unto you I say unto you, be gone...
- Like any individual he is not an entity unto himself but a meeting point of others that constitute him.
- Up unto his loss in 2001, Labor had only lost at the polls only when Peres was its leader.
- It is difficult to spoof a convention when the convention itself is so awful it seems a spoof unto itself.
2 archaic term for until. marriage was forever—unto death...
- Often, they are found in pairs and share strong bonds that are never broken, even unto death.
- The Bible states clearly a man who takes another man's wife shall be taken without the city walls and stoned unto death.
- He even threatened to fast unto death to get his alcoholic father to break the habit.
Origin
Middle English: from until, with to replacing till1 (in its northern dialect meaning 'to').
Rhymes
- jump rope
- jump seat
- jump shift
- jump ship
- jump shot
- jump someone's bones
- jump-start
- jumpstation
- jumpsuit
- jump the gun
- jump the queue (or jump in line)
- jump the rails (or track)
- jump the shark
- skilful
- skilfully
- skilfulness
- ski lift
- skill
- best fit
- best friend
- Best, George
- best girl
- best guess
- bestial
- bestiality