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  • verb Present participle of unarm.

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Examples

  • The unarming of Israel's illegal nuclear capability.

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • Four nights and three days they sojourned in a certain little village while there was a hard frost and where, without unarming, they "slept under the trees and drank water."

    Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

  • Four nights and three days they sojourned in a certain little village while there was a hard frost and where, without unarming, they “slept under the trees and drank water.”

    Charles the Bold Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931 1908

  • Alone he faced the roystering Morton at Merrymount, unarming that vaporing rebel and putting his riotous colony upon its good behavior.

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

  • And thereby he gained a further advantage, -- that of unarming his victim, -- for virginity is as

    The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

  • In this kind we commend the wisdom and goodness of Galen, who would not leave unto the world too subtle a theory of poisons; unarming thereby the malice of venomous spirits, whose ignorance must be contented with sublimate and arsenic.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • Seeing as most on the "right" believe taking away their guns is a "liberal/left" goal, from what my memory provides me, it was the George W. Bush administration that ordered the unarming of private United States citizens during the Katrina disaster.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Seeing as most on the "right" believe taking away their guns is a "liberal/left" goal, from what my memory provides me, it was the George W. Bush administration that ordered the unarming of private United States citizens during the Katrina disaster.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Seeing as most on the "right" believe taking away their guns is a "liberal/left" goal, from what my memory provides me, it was the George W. Bush administration that ordered the unarming of private United States citizens during the Katrina disaster.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Seeing as most on the "right" believe taking away their guns is a "liberal/left" goal, from what my memory provides me, it was the George W. Bush administration that ordered the unarming of private United States citizens during the Katrina disaster.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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