Meanings
unstone1
verbunstone (third-person singular simple present unstones, present participle unstoning, simple past and past participle unstoned)
present singular third person unstones · participle present unstoning · participle past unstoned · past unstoned
- raretransitiveTo undo the stoning of; to transform back from stone.
The unstoning of Hermione—itself a fairy tale and mythic restoration, stone into flesh—turns her to something Leontes links with food: […]
2017, Mary Ellen Lamb, Karen Bamford, Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts
Unstone2
proper noun
- A village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3777).
Origin
Unstone · proper noun
From the unattested Old English personal name *Ōn or *Ōna + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
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