Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unpeer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-peer
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To remove from peerage; relinquish one's peerdom.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"[…] to destroy the king and parliament; disinherit his royal posterity; unpeer all the lords, and level them with the dust; […]"
"[…] not that he thought it a degradation for peers to sit in the House of Commons, but it was a degradation to the peers of Scotland to give them liberty to unpeer themselves, and to descend from the order to which they belonged."
"When the Earl of Selborne died, who as Sir Roundell Palmer had been made Lord Chancellor, his son, a prominent M.P., declared he would not go to the Upper House, that he would unpeer himself."

Etymology

From un- + peer.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un-

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

unpeers (present, singular) unpeering (participle, present) unpeered (participle, past) unpeered (past)

Questions

What does unpeer mean?: To remove from peerage; relinquish one's peerdom.
Where does unpeer come from?: From un- + peer.

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