unpreach

present singular third person unpreaches · participle present unpreaching · participle past unpreached · past unpreached

1. transitiveTo undo or overthrow (something) by preaching; to revoke (something preached before).

   The clergy their own principles denied: Unpreach'd their non-resisting cant, and pray'd / Their liberty and property's so dear

   1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], “(please specify the page)”, in The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], →OCLC

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   [Y]et for a priest of the Church of England, […] to show the white feather in the hour of need, is to unpreach in one minute all that he had been preaching his life-long.

   1855, Charles Kingsley, “How They Took the Pearls at Margarita”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 269