unquit
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
unquit (third-person singular simple present unquits, present participle unquitting, simple past and past participle unquit)
- (informal) To undo the effects of quitting; to start again.
- 2015 April 6, Jillian Lauren, “How Do You Know When It's Time to Stop Trying?”, in Elle[1], archived from the original on 2017-06-11:
- In my effort to conceive, I've tried acupressure, chiropractic, Reiki, quitting wheat, quitting dairy, quitting sugar, quitting meat, unquitting meat, eating lots of ice cream, expensive supplements, charting ovulation, Chinese herbs, yoga, breathing, meditation, hypnosis, ayurveda, muscle testing, meditation, homeopathy, Kabbalah classes, church, colonics....
- 2017 May 26, Zachary Lipez, “The Guide to Getting into Nick Cave”, in VICE[2], archived from the original on 2022-12-17:
- Boy. Get ready to unquit smoking.
- 2020 March 10, Sarah Miller, “Eating meat is inhumane, bad for the environment, and harmful to my health. I still can't give it up.”, in Business Insider[3], archived from the original on 2023-01-22:
- Looming over any fresh attempt at vegetarianism is the specter of the first time I quit, when I unquit for almost no reason
- 2020 July 6, Stephanie McKenna, “Home and Away Review: Willow uncovers Jasmine's dark web secrets”, in The West Australian[4], archived from the original on 2022-07-03:
- Maggie has to "unquit" her job but they've already hired someone new and Ben hasn't been to work in days which still perplexes me because it wasn't that long ago that the board shop was very broke.
Adjective[edit]
unquit (not comparable)
- (archaic) Not repaid or answered; unrequited.
- Synonym: unquitted
- 1859, Robert M. De Witt, John Edwin Cook, The Life, Trial, and Execution of Captain John Brown, page 88:
- Should I be asked why this man should not be brought within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Virginia so as to punish him—was he to go unquit by justice for his offences?—my answer would at once be: No, gentlemen, not for one moment.
References[edit]
- “unquit”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
