unpervertv.
/(ˌ)ʌnpəˈvəːt/, U.S. /ˌənpərˈvərt/ transitive. To reverse a previous act of perversion practised upon (a person, set of facts, etc.); to restore to a regular course or state.
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society > communication > information > enlightenment > enlighten [verb (transitive)] > undeceive
to bring (a person) to reasona1400
to set (also put) someone right1551
unhoodwink1585
undeceive1598
unbeguile1599
disabuse1611
disdeceive1622
disinveigle1635
clarify1642
unconfound1649
uncheat1650
undelude1651
ungull1652
unpervert1655
unseduce1664
unbewilder1668
unclouda1711
disillude1860
disillusionize1861
disillusion1864
de-bamboozle1919
straighten1956
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 77 His Wife could never be unperverted again, but perished in her Judaism.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 163 I declare I had the credit all over Paris of unperverting Madame de V***.
1852 Times 13 Feb. 5/1 Such is the ‘perversion of facts’, and such the arguments by which the Admiralty would unpervert the perversion.
1892 Landmark (Statesville, N. Carolina) 14 Apr. You have a paper here that has said we are trying to pervert the Democratic party. It has already been perverted. We are trying to unpervert it.
1990 G. E. Michalson Fallen Freedom 78 Moral conversion ‘unperverts’, as it were, the relation between these incentives.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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