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- verb Present participle of
unpeople .
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Examples
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But the grand object of the revolutionary party was still to carry out the wild scheme of unpeopling
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864
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'Thus, from thefe mea - fures, you lay the fureft foundations of unpeopling Britain, and ftrengthening America to revolt:
Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and of the Principle ... 1797
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I am not, I aflure you, for unpeopling our cities, and fend« ing their induftrious and ufeful inhabit - ants into woods and cloifters.
Moral and Political Dialogues;: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance 1776
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