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1631 E. Reynolds Three Treat. ii. 289 Some sinnes..may unqualifie a man for an actuall admittance into Heaven..which yet doe not nullifie his Faith.

1655 W. Spurstowe Wels of Salvation 164 Earthly things defile the heart with..corrupt affections, which do unqualifie it for the reception of..precious promises.

1694 S. Johnson Notes Pastoral Let. 73 The Duke of York had unqualified himself for that High Office.

1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 103. ⁋16 These particularities..in dress and behaviour..oftentimes..unqualify them from doing any Good in the World.

1745 D. Fordyce Dialogues conc. Educ. II. 4 The Orders and Institutions, which take Place in those little Legislative Seminaries, should clash with those that obtain in the great School of the World; insomuch, that the being formed in the One, shall unqualify a Man for Reputation and Success in the other.

1794 A. M. Bennett Ellen III. 72 His ill health..unqualified him to be a public [tutor].

1836 T. Erskine Baxter's Saint's Everlasting Rest Pref. p. xxxiv [To] unqualify the mind for present exertion.

1853 C. H. Spurgeon Let. 28 Nov. in Autobiogr. (1898) I. xxviii. 317 If you think my years would unqualify me for your pulpit.

1899 Friends' Intelligencer & Jrnl. 28 Oct. 181/1 His physical strength and mental temperament utterly unqualify him for the arduous labors of the high office.

1957 Foreign Affairs 36 119 All are considered circumstances which as such neither qualify nor unqualify him as a candidate for any high office.

1992 Daily Mail (Nexis) 30 May 10 Robert Rygor, of the activist group ACT-UP, said: ‘I think it's appalling and unqualifies him for the nation's highest office’.