Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To release from the power of a spell or enchantment; disenchant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a
spell ; todisenchant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb release from a spell
Etymologies
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Examples
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But before his very real and unethereal, unspell-cast knife could strike, the little gnome delivered a punch line that caught the assassin square in his funny bone.
Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001
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Hereupon the King let unbind the youth and sent him to jail; then he said to Abu Niyyah, "Wouldst thou go at once to my daughter and unspell her from the Jinni?"
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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To unspell her brother, Mylla needs Alard's protection, but dares not trust him with the full truth, for fear of being accused as a witch herself.
EVIL EDITOR 2008
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Whoever in going over this bridge uttered a certain word, could unspell her if he would afterwards allow her to walk beside him the rest of the way over the bridge without speaking; but the difficulty was that nobody knew what the powerful word was. [
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887
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