unsphere

American  

[uhn-sfeer] / ʌnˈsfɪər /

verb (used with object)

unsphered, unsphering

1. to remove from its or one's sphere; displace.

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unsphere British  

/ ʌnˈsfɪə /

verb

1. poetic (tr) to remove from its, one's, etc, sphere or place

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Etymology

Origin of unsphere

First recorded in 1605–15; un- ² + sphere

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Example Sentences

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unsphere unsphered

Is not that face the Sphinx, Whose timeless and intemperable meaning No man has read in desert, star, or sea, But which must be the secret I unsphere?

From The Immortal Lure by Cale Young Rice

I'm sick of noise and care: and now mine ear Longs for some air of peace, some dying plaint That may the spirit from it's cell unsphere.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

You put me off with limber vows; but I, Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths, Should yet say 'Sir, no going.'

From The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

"Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, Or thrice-great Hermes, and unsphere The spirit of Plato."

From Eugene Aram — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

When she deserted him, he held her up to contempt as an old sorceress who could by charms unsphere the moon.—Horace,

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

And if it be either of these, shall we say that education has unsphered and unsexed her?

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If one were not a part of the season's fixed routine, one swung unsphered in a void of social non-existence.

From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

I have been quite unsphered since I have been here, in various ways, and have discovered how good every man's business is and how wide his horizon.

From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by George Willis Cooke

Can men worship the wan features, The sunk eyes, the wailing tone, Of unsphered, discrowned creatures, Souls as little godlike as their own?

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

They are past away As fairies vanish at the break of day; And like a spectre of an age departed, Or unsphered angel woefully astray, She glides along—the solitary-hearted.

From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn

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