uncharm

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uncharm (third-person singular simple present uncharms, present participle uncharming, simple past and past participle uncharmed)

(transitive) To release from a charm, fascination, or secret power; to disenchant.
- 1609–1612, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Captaine”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  she is outwardly / All that bewitches sense, all that entices; / Nor is it in our virtue to uncharm it

References edit

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