Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

undevil

/ʌnˈdɛvɪl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-dev-il
IPA: /ʌnˈdɛvɪl/

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise or to make less devilish.

Archaic; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From un- + devil.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Inflected Forms

undevils (present, singular) undeviling (US, participle) undevilling (UK, participle) undeviled (US, participle) undeviled (US, past) undevilled (UK, participle) undevilled (UK, past)

Derived Forms

undevilled

Questions

How do you pronounce undevil?: The recorded pronunciation is /ʌnˈdɛvɪl/.
What does undevil mean?: To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise or to make less devilish.
Where does undevil come from?: From un- + devil.

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