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

The beauty thou dost worship dwells in thee:     Within thy soul divine it harboureth:     This also bids my spirit soar, and saith     Words that unsphere for me heaven's harmony.

From Sonnets by John Addington Symonds

I have learnt a few oaths lately that I reckon will unsphere some of the scandal-mongers of Nephelococcygia.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay

You put me off with limber vows; but I, Tho' you would seek t' unsphere the stars with oaths Should still say, "Sir, no going!"

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

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

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 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

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

And stars no longer hot; Or broken constellations strewn Like coals about the heavenly floor, And rush of night upon the noon Of their lost worlds, unsphered restorelessly In icy deserts of the sky.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith

They are passed away As Fairies vanish at the break of day; And like a spectre of an age departed, Or unsphered Angel wofully astray, She glides along—the solitary-hearted.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

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

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