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- verb Present participle of
unarm .
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Examples
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The unarming of Israel's illegal nuclear capability.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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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
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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
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Alone he faced the roystering Morton at Merrymount, unarming that vaporing rebel and putting his riotous colony upon its good behavior.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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