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- verb Present participle of
uncreate .
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Examples
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The Nexxial Timesweepers of the Fourth Era of time travel are carefully uncreating any time travelers before they come into existence, to eliminate the possibility of time travel ever coming to pass.
MIND MELD: Which Predictions Did Golden Age Science Fiction Get Right & Wrong? 2008
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The press created Wright, and they are uncreating him.
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And this God—the creator of light, harmony, fruitfulness, and life—showed his unsurpassed power in the days of Moses by “uncreating” Egypt.
The God of the Towel Jim McGuiggan 1997
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And this God—the creator of light, harmony, fruitfulness, and life—showed his unsurpassed power in the days of Moses by “uncreating” Egypt.
The God of the Towel Jim McGuiggan 1997
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For a moment, gazing at the ancient light of the stars, she thought: Why should I worry about uncreating so much of human history?
Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996
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Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word ....
Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982
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Scotus Erigena in the ninth century when he spoke of that which creates and is uncreated as contrasted with that which is uncreating and created.
NATURE GEORGE BOAS 1968
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Europe, until in the last century, before the "uncreating word" of
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By what right, by what omnipo - tent power, by what uncreating, and re-creating authority, does this bafe renegade doom to politi - cal annihilation nine-tenths of the adult inhabitants of a nation?
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Not robbing a man of privileges, but of _himself_; not loading him with burdens, but making him a _beast of burden_; not restraining liberty, but subverting it; not curtailing rights, but abolishing them; not inflicting personal cruelty, but annihilating _personality_; not exacting involuntary labor, but sinking man into an _implement_ of labor; not abridging human comforts, but abrogating human _nature_; not depriving an animal of immunities, but despoiling a rational being of attributes -- uncreating a MAN, to make room for a _thing_!
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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