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Middle English
Etymology
From un- + maken.
Pronunciation
Verb
unmaken (third-person singular simple present unmaketh, present participle unmakende, unmakynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative unmade, past participle unmad)
- (transitive) to unmake, to destroy, to kill
- (transitive) to abrogate, to annul, to abolish
- (transitive) to bring (someone) to ruin or a lowly state; also to depose, to dethrone (a ruler)
- (in the past participle) uncreated, unmade, existing eternally
- a. 1450, The Creation and the Fall of Lucifer in The York Plays, as recorded c. 1463–1477 in British Museum MS. Additional 35290:
I am gracyus and grete, god withoutyn begynnyng, / I am maker vnmade, all mighte es in me, / I am lyfe and way vnto welth-wynnyng, / I am formaste and fyrste, als I byd sall it be.- I am gracious and great, God without beginning, / I am the unmade maker—all might is in me, / I am life and the way to the attainment of salvation, / I am foremost and first—as I command, it shall be.
- (in the past participle) incomplete, unfinished
Conjugation
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
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