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English
Etymology
From un- + nun.
Pronunciation
Verb
unnun (third-person singular simple present unnuns, present participle unnunning, simple past and past participle unnunned)
- (transitive, rare) To remove from the condition of being a nun.
1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Hospitallers in England Stoutly Withstand Three Severall Assaults, which Overthrew All Other Religious Foundations”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge , →OCLC, book V (A Supplement of the Historie of the Holy Warre), page 238:The ſupreſſion of the Hoſpitallers in England deſerveth eſpeciall notice, […] the Regulars therein tied to a ſtrict and punctuall obſervation of their orders without any relaxation of the leaſt libertie; inſomuch that many did quickly un-nunne and disfriar themſelves, […]
References
Japanese
Romanization
unnun
- Rōmaji transcription of うんぬん