unrankv.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈraŋk/, U.S. /ˌənˈræŋk/ transitive. Originally: to throw into disarray or disorder. Now: to remove from or deprive of ranking. Also intransitive.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > disarrange [verb (transitive)]
disarraya1387
difforma1425
disrank1602
discompose1611
unrank1611
dismarshall1630
deform1725
disarrange1744
disrange1775
derange1777
misarrange1815
upsteer1889
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desfiler,..to vnranke, disorder; put off a file.
1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. xli. 182 [They] charged the Christians through and through, till they scarce left a ranke [not] unranked.
1698 D. Jones Theatre of Wars 30 Being thereby disordered, unrank'd and routed; the whole Army in a short time was totally defeated.
1728 R. Spencer tr. J. B. Bossuet Introd. Universal Hist. ii. 164 They unite, or separate, as they please; then unrank easily, and come together again without any trouble.
1826 Princ. Roots French Lang. 31 Thus to degrade is literally to unrank a person.
1915 F. B. Dickerson Practical Law & Business Guide 1116 To be known as the friend of vile men, of dishonest men, soon unranks you with good men.
1998 D. Heap in J. Lema & E. Treviño Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages 236 Thus ‘unranking’ two classes of clitics.
2009 E. Lindner Emotion & Confl. Introd. p. xx Ranking the essence of a person's worthiness as low or high cannot be achieved at the same time as unranking it as equal.
Derivatives
un'ranking n.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desarrengement, an vnranking, disordering, disarraying.
1972 Federal Suppl. (U.S.) 338 326/1 The unranking of the finalists..was an express violation of GPO requirements.
2009 E. Lindner Emotion & Confl. Introd. p. xx Ranking and unranking cannot be done concurrently.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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