Undevil

Quick meaning: Undevil is a verb meaning (archaic, transitive) To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise or to make less devilish.

Meaning

(archaic, transitive) To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise or to make less devilish.

Example Sentences

The boy having gotten a habit of counterfeiting […] would not be undevilled by all their exorcisms.

It is hardly more wondrous to undevil a man than it is to restore reason, at a word, to the brain-distracted, the ravening, frenzied bedlamite — the re-enthronement of a mind lost in the darkness of shattered intellect.

[...] for the following day, the flowers were watered a quarter of an hour earlier than usual, and the bulfinch was allowed to perch on her finger and chirruped to, with a degree of innocent tenderness that would have undeviled Mephistophiles.

Word Forms

• undevils
• undeviling
• undevilling
• undeviled
• undevilled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exorcise, exorcize, outdevil, unwitch, emancipate, unbewitch.

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