unnun

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ nun.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʌnˈnʌn/

Verb

unnun (third-person singular simple present unnuns, present participle unnunning, simple past and past participle unnunned)

  1. (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 [and sold by John Williams, London], →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, […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unnun in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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