Unbrother

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make no longer a brother; to expel from a brotherhood. transitive

    "It is not in the power of the sins of our infirmity, to unbrother us; when we look at the acts themselves, they are heinous; when at the persons, they are so much more faulty as more obliged; but when we look at the mercy of thee who hast called us, now, Who shall separate us?"

Example

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"It is not in the power of the sins of our infirmity, to unbrother us; when we look at the acts themselves, they are heinous; when at the persons, they are so much more faulty as more obliged; but when we look at the mercy of thee who hast called us, now, Who shall separate us?"

Etymology

From un- + brother.

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