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present singular third person unprays · participle present unpraying · participle past unprayed · past unprayed
- To annul or revoke (something previously prayed for) by prayer.
he found himselfe overwhelmed in the injoying of his desire, and being enrich't with an intolerable commoditie, he must now unpray his prayers[…].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC1 more example
That even vvhiles the infirmity of his [Jesus's] humane nature ſtarted at the apprehenſion of vvhat he vvas to ſuffer, and prayed againſt it, yet the freeneſs and purity of his obedience carried [him] on to it, and made him, as it vvere, un-pray vvhat he had before prayed: […]
1676, [Matthew Hale], “The Knowledge of Christ Crucified”, in Contemplations Moral and Divine. […], London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbury […], and John Leigh […], →OCLC, page 232
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