unprayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈpɹeɪ/

動詞

unpray (三人称単数 現在形 unprays, 現在分詞 unpraying, 過去形および過去分詞形 unprayed)

1. To annul or revoke (something previously prayed for) by prayer.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     he found himselfe overwhelmed in the injoying of his desire, and being enrich't with an intolerable commoditie, he must now unpray his prayers […].

   • 1676, [Matthew Hale], “The Knowledge of Christ Crucified”, in Contemplations Moral and Divine. […], London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbury […], and John Leigh […], OCLC 823511306, page 232:

     That even vvhiles the infirmity of his [Jesus's] humane nature ſtarted at the apprehenſion of vvhat he vvas to ſuffer, and prayed againſt it, yet the freeneſs and purity of his obedience carried [him] on to it, and made him, as it vvere, un-pray vvhat he had before prayed: […]