Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

uncause

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-cause
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To revert or undo the causing of an act or action

Transitive verb

verb

To block or withstand the causing of an act or action

Transitive verb

noun

Absence of cause

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The truth is simply this: that which causes marriage also uncauses it."
"Does the new soul, by itself, “cause” the conception? Can I then not uncause it?"
"It is conceptually wrong to assert that a person makes a causal contribution to an act and its consequences when it is already being caused by others, simply because she fails to do some other act to uncause what is in progress."
"Origin, in the last resort, means uncause. If what has taken form acknowledges no continuity, no inheritance, no necessity, then what has taken form, again in the extremest meaning, is a beginning."
"If uncause can enter the business of decision and liberate it from determinacy, its natural locus, we may think, is the origination of the sequels, in a sense more absolute than the mere putting together of ingredients."

Etymology

From un- (“reverse, undo”) + cause (verb).

Usage

Inflected Forms

uncauses (present, singular) uncausing (participle, present) uncaused (participle, past) uncaused (past)

Questions

What does uncause mean?: To revert or undo the causing of an act or action
Where does uncause come from?: From un- (“reverse, undo”) + cause (verb).

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