Unbolster

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove the support from. transitive

    "What can unbolster a man whose trust in his morality, or pious education, or social virtues, props him up to a fancied superiority to the provisions of the Gospel; what, but the truth, […]?"

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"What can unbolster a man whose trust in his morality, or pious education, or social virtues, props him up to a fancied superiority to the provisions of the Gospel; what, but the truth, […]?"

Etymology

From un- + bolster.

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