unplace

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ place.

Verb[edit]

unplace (third-person singular simple present unplaces, present participle unplacing, simple past and past participle unplaced)

  1. (transitive) To remove from one's place; displace.

Noun[edit]

unplace (plural unplaces)

  1. Lack or absence of place; placelessness; displacement.
    • 2014, Bonnie Wheeler, Medieval Mothering - Page 164:
      More fundamental even than the paradox of dying to live is the paradox of being enclosed in a narrow place to gain access to the limitless unplace which is Heaven: my cell is so narrow,' you may say, but oh, how wide is the sky!

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