unsoul

English

Etymology

un- +‎ soul

Verb

unsoul (third-person singular simple present unsouls, present participle unsouling, simple past and past participle unsouled)

1. To deprive of soul, spirit, or principle.
   • 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:

     unsouled folk

Related terms

• desoul

References

“unsoul”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.