unnature

English

Etymology

un- +‎ nature

Verb

unnature (third-person singular simple present unnatures, present participle unnaturing, simple past and past participle unnatured)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature.
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:

     A right heavenly nature, indeed, as it were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them [the elements].

Noun

unnature (uncountable)

1. That which is contrary to nature; the unnatural.
   • 1858, Horace Bushnell, Nature and the Supernatural:

     So as to be rather unnature, after all, than nature.