unbrother

English

Etymology

un- +‎ brother

Verb

unbrother (third-person singular simple present unbrothers, present participle unbrothering, simple past and past participle unbrothered)

1. (transitive) To make no longer a brother; to expel from a brotherhood.
   • 1808, Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Old Testament: Books xix, xx and xxi, page 512:

     It is not in the power of the sins of our infirmity, to unbrother us; when we look at the acts themselves, they are heinous; when at the persons, they are so much more faulty as more obliged; but when we look at the mercy of thee who hast called us, now, Who shall separate us?

   • 1884, Charles Stanford, From Calvary to Olivet, page 151:

     Some of us take fresh heart at the thought of it, and learn that it is not in the power of infirmity to unbrother us; we are Christ's brothers; and 'brothers are brothers evermore.'