单词 | unpreach |
释义 | unpreachv. transitive. To recant, take back (something one has preached). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > preach [verb (transitive)] > undo preaching of unpreach1608 1608 R. Kilby Burthen of Loaden Conscience 87 If I preached anie thing according to the word of God, I vtterly vnpreached and denied it in my life and conuersation. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman ii. 42 The Clergy..Unpreach'd their Non-Resisting Cant, and pray'd To Heav'n for Help. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xviii To show the white feather in the hour of need, is to unpreach in one minute all that he had been preaching his life long. 1910 W. J. Tucker Public Mindedness xiii. 181 An old colored preacher, to whom it was pointed out..that he had given the wrong meaning to his text,..cried out in a great humility, ‘The Lord help dis old man to unpreach dat sermon.’ 2007 P. Gulley Porch Talk 67 There are always sermons you wish you could unpreach. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1608 |
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