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"etymology_text": "From un- + stay.",
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"ref": "1918, Ford Madox Ford, The English review",
"text": "He plays with the late Watts-Dunton and gets good fun out of it; he rips open the sham, unstays the imperfect, sonnet ; he tackles all fretters of the great English instrument and worries them all, yet with a fine sanity.",
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"ref": "1967, John Nichols, The Gentleman's magazine",
"text": "\"[...] And true it is that the life of man is in the hands of God; and the state of kingdoms doth also belong to Him, to stay or to unstay them.\" All men had clearly foreseen that Edward's death would beget the evils of a disputed succession.",
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"To undo the establishment of; disestablish; dissolve; divest."
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"ref": "2005, Ivan Doig, English Creek",
"text": "Staying on a mount that is trying to unstay you is a historic procedure of the livestock business.",
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"To expel; expulse; remove; release; rid."
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