unlight
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "His father, in another room, unlights the lamp and leaves the world alone."
- "Remember Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first Star Wars film? At one point in the big duel, he unlights his light sabre and stands defenseless but confident before Darth Vader, saying sonorously, “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”"
- "It would be so easy to trace Ian's death back to that match, the one he said he would not unlight if he could. The one that made him appear to be a monster and therefore unfit for romantic love, while also making him rich […]"
- "Those of the Unlight is probably Marduk's most traditional black metal recording, and one of my personal favorites."
- ""The door will only open when you strike it under the unlight of a moon at full dark. And the moon is many days from full dark now." Corydon gasped."
- "The unlight of Ungoliant Tolkien, always mindful of his language and especially his metaphors for light, was careful not to call the cloak that Ungoliant wove to hide Melkor and herself during their attack [on] the Two Trees a darkness."
Etymology
From un- + light or, in the case of the verb, perhaps from Middle English *unlighten (suggested by past participle unlight, unlyght, unliȝt (“unlit”)), equivalent to un- + light.