"unmember" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1652, Daniel Cawdrey, A sober answer to a serious question propounded by mr. G. Firmin:",
          "text": "[\"Non-confoederate persons, in their sense are \"Non members of the Church, &c.] and consequently their children have no title to Baptisme, (which is one of our Authours arguments in pag. 10 of his book, borrow'd from Mr. Hooker, part. 2, p. 24, whereby he unmembers and unchurches all not so constituted.",
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          "ref": "1826, John Beveridge, Evidence in favor of the Seamen, page 15:",
          "text": "Ques. Suppose a man does not choose to pay his fine? Ans. Then he is unmembered, and if he goes to see and comes to an accident, he gets no benefit.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Daniel Cawdrey, C. Matthew McMahon, A Discourse on Church Discipline and Reformation, page 79:",
          "text": "Or, that the people have become their enemies and burdens, when they first make and account them enemies, unmember and unchurch them, as very little better then heathens.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, John V. Glass III, Allen Tate, page 311:",
          "text": "The speaker moves \"Into a world where sound shaded the sight\" and where he hears \"the dull hooves again\"; the horsemen, he says, come Again, all but the leader: it was night Mmemntly and I feard: eleven same Jesus-Christers unmembered and unmade, Whose Corpse had died again in dirty shame.",
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        {
          "ref": "2019, Maria Boikova Struble, The Politics of Bodies at Risk, page 13:",
          "text": "The goal of what follows is to examine this tension in greater detail and with reference to the specific cases of individuals and groups of individuals caught once in a network of risk-induced behavior and then in a world of risk-informed rehabilitation, implying them in a logic designed to reestablish order and ensure survival, in which members of the legal/legitimat national community are dis-membered, rememberd, and unmembered either because of ethnicity, poverty, borders, warfare, or a combination of the four, yet rarely because of their histories, names, or singular lives.",
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        "To deprive of membership, as for example in a church."
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        "(transitive) To deprive of membership, as for example in a church."
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        {
          "ref": "1881, Drummond Welburn, Memoir of William Kendrick, page 117:",
          "text": "Beneath thy hand we lie— Unmembered, broken, bleeding hearts, Nor dare to question why.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, El Corno emplumado: The Plumed horn, page 72:",
          "text": "Who curse the knives That unmembered them .",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, David Carkeet, I Been There Before, page 33:",
          "text": "I says to myself 'You've gone and unmembered this man .'",
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        "To dismember."
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        "(transitive, rare) To dismember."
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  "word": "unmember"
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          "ref": "1988, Dallas E. Wiebe, Going to the Mountain, page 18:",
          "text": "Calcutta the temperature-taker, the dispenser of aspirins, the receiver of Medicaid payments, the unmember of the A.M.A., the husband of a woman who can't read the arrows in parking lots because she can't see over the dashboard because she's so fat from having so many kids paid for by American tax dollars, whispered, \"Adam and Eve were Hindus.\"",
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          "ref": "2010, Jerrold S. Greenberg, Clint E. Bruess, Sarah C. Conklin, Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality:",
          "text": "The values that her family and culture held were very important to Lisa, and she fretted over the prospect of becomming an \"unmember” of her family, were she to become pregnant outside marriage.",
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          "ref": "2023, Michael Keith, Race, Riots and Policing:",
          "text": "Many groups (younger people, the unwaged, the unmembers) will not belong to any organization that might possibly be involved; many of the members of the committee (e.g. clergy) cannot be said to “represent” any constituency, even if they have a valuable contribution to make to consultation.",
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          "ref": "1826, John Beveridge, Evidence in favor of the Seamen, page 15:",
          "text": "Ques. Suppose a man does not choose to pay his fine? Ans. Then he is unmembered, and if he goes to see and comes to an accident, he gets no benefit.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Daniel Cawdrey, C. Matthew McMahon, A Discourse on Church Discipline and Reformation, page 79:",
          "text": "Or, that the people have become their enemies and burdens, when they first make and account them enemies, unmember and unchurch them, as very little better then heathens.",
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          "ref": "2016, John V. Glass III, Allen Tate, page 311:",
          "text": "The speaker moves \"Into a world where sound shaded the sight\" and where he hears \"the dull hooves again\"; the horsemen, he says, come Again, all but the leader: it was night Mmemntly and I feard: eleven same Jesus-Christers unmembered and unmade, Whose Corpse had died again in dirty shame.",
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          "ref": "2019, Maria Boikova Struble, The Politics of Bodies at Risk, page 13:",
          "text": "The goal of what follows is to examine this tension in greater detail and with reference to the specific cases of individuals and groups of individuals caught once in a network of risk-induced behavior and then in a world of risk-informed rehabilitation, implying them in a logic designed to reestablish order and ensure survival, in which members of the legal/legitimat national community are dis-membered, rememberd, and unmembered either because of ethnicity, poverty, borders, warfare, or a combination of the four, yet rarely because of their histories, names, or singular lives.",
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          "ref": "1968, El Corno emplumado: The Plumed horn, page 72:",
          "text": "Who curse the knives That unmembered them .",
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        {
          "ref": "1987, David Carkeet, I Been There Before, page 33:",
          "text": "I says to myself 'You've gone and unmembered this man .'",
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        "To dismember."
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          "text": "Calcutta the temperature-taker, the dispenser of aspirins, the receiver of Medicaid payments, the unmember of the A.M.A., the husband of a woman who can't read the arrows in parking lots because she can't see over the dashboard because she's so fat from having so many kids paid for by American tax dollars, whispered, \"Adam and Eve were Hindus.\"",
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          "ref": "2010, Jerrold S. Greenberg, Clint E. Bruess, Sarah C. Conklin, Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality:",
          "text": "The values that her family and culture held were very important to Lisa, and she fretted over the prospect of becomming an \"unmember” of her family, were she to become pregnant outside marriage.",
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