unbe
English
Verb
unbe (no third-person singular simple present, present participle unbeing, no simple past, past participle unbeen)
- (intransitive, rare) To lack being; to be nonexistent.
- 1901, Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present, Edinburgh & London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., page 234:
- I cannot bear my fate as writ,
I'd have my life unbe; Would turn my memory to a blot,
Make every relic of me rot,
My doings be as they were not,
And what they've brought to me!
- (transitive, rare) To deprive of being; to make nonexistent.
References
- “unbe, v.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “unbe, v.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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