See undevil on Wiktionary
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{ "derived": [ { "word": "undevilled" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "un", "3": "devil" }, "expansion": "un- + devil", "name": "prefix" } ], "etymology_text": "From un- + devil.", "forms": [ { "form": "undevils", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "undeviling", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "undevilling", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "undeviled", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "undeviled", "tags": [ "past" ] }, { "form": "undevilled", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "undevilled", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "past2": "undevilled", "pres_ptc2": "undevilling" }, "expansion": "undevil (third-person singular simple present undevils, present participle undeviling or undevilling, simple past and past participle undeviled or undevilled)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms prefixed with un-", "English terms with archaic senses", "English terms with quotations", "English transitive verbs", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):", "text": "The boy having gotten a habit of counterfeiting […] would not be undevilled by all their exorcisms.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1841, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), Cecil:", "text": "[...] for the following day, the flowers were watered a quarter of an hour earlier than usual, and the bulfinch was allowed to perch on her finger and chirruped to, with a degree of innocent tenderness that would have undeviled Mephistophiles.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1893, Thomas De Witt Talmage, From Manger to Throne:", "text": "It is hardly more wondrous to undevil a man than it is to restore reason, at a word, to the brain-distracted, the ravening, frenzied bedlamite — the re-enthronement of a mind lost in the darkness of shattered intellect.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise." ], "links": [ [ "free", "free" ], [ "possession", "possession" ], [ "devil", "devil" ], [ "evil", "evil" ], [ "spirit", "spirit" ], [ "exorcise", "exorcise" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(archaic, transitive) To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise." ], "tags": [ "archaic", "transitive" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ʌnˈdɛvɪl/" } ], "word": "undevil" }
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