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unˈsting, v.
[un-2 4.]
trans. To deprive of a sting.
1612J. Davies (Heref.) Muse's Sacr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 79/1 God unstings such angry Waspes and Bees. 1656Trapp Comm. 1 Cor. xv. 56 Christ having unstinged death, and as it were disarmed it. 1692South Serm. (1697) II. 564 He has disarmed his Afflictions, unstung his Miseries. 1827Pollok Course T. ii. 341 For temporal death, although unstinged, remained. 1850R. Simpson Mem. Worth vi. 83 [Death] was unstinged when it encountered him.
Hence unˈstinged ppl. a. (Cf. unstung2.)
1782J. Brown Nat. & Rev. Relig. iii. ii, An unstinged and sweetened death. |