Unspell

Quick meaning: Unspell is a verb meaning (transitive) To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant.

Meaning

(transitive) To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant.

Example Sentences

Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, […]

If Burd Ellen had gone “widishins" round the church, she would, I think, have used the best homoeopathic specific against the Elf-King's power; for "to go widishins" was the chief element in elfin practices, and if mortals wished to resist or unspell elf-craft, they, too, had "to go widershins," or they had to repeat the Paternoster backwards, which came to the same thing, or do something else contrariwise.

Word Forms

• unspells
• unspelling
• unspelled

Antonyms for unspell

Common opposites include spell.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disencharm, disenchant, uncharm, unenchant, unbewitch, decharm.

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