Untreasure

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To despoil of treasure. obsolete, poetic, transitive

    "When Cluffe […] returned to the drawing-room, […] he was a good deal chagrined to find the drawing-room 'untreasured of its mistress.'"

  2. 2
    To display or set forth. obsolete, poetic, transitive

    "J. Mitford the quaintness with which he untreasured, as by rote, the stores of his memory"

Example

More examples

"When Cluffe […] returned to the drawing-room, […] he was a good deal chagrined to find the drawing-room 'untreasured of its mistress.'"

Etymology

From un- + treasure.

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