unworldv.
1. transitive. To deprive of the qualities of a world; to undo as a world. Also reflexive.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > deprive of essential elements or qualities > deprive of other specific qualities
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1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 20 Take away the least vericulum out of the world, and it unworlds all, potentially.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 155 The worlds driving up to any thing of Gods being, would as much ungod him, and over and above unworld it self.
1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 106 Such world has, of two courses, one to choose: Unworld itself,—or else [etc.].
1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 116 ‘Unworld the world,’ frowns he, my opposite. I cry ‘Life!’
2. To deprive of a share in worldly activities.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > exclude from society [verb (transitive)]
seclude1498
refrain1547
ostracize1649
proscribe1680
to send (a person) to Coventry1765
taboo1791
blackball1821
blackbean1829
to freeze out1861
unworld1868
exostracize1872
boycott1880
1868 H. Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 404 Why is he [sc. a soldier] allowed no more to have any world..? Is he thus unworlded to take the mettle out of him?
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