unnun

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ nun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈnʌn/

Verb

unnun (third-person singular simple present unnuns, present participle unnunning, simple past and past participle unnunned)

1. (transitive, rare) To remove from the condition of being a nun.
   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Hospitallers in England Stoutly Withstand Three Severall Assaults, which Overthrew All Other Religious Foundations”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book V (A Supplement of the Historie of the Holy Warre), page 238:

     The ſupreſſion of the Hoſpitallers in England deſerveth eſpeciall notice, […] the Regulars therein tied to a ſtrict and punctuall obſervation of their orders without any relaxation of the leaſt libertie; inſomuch that many did quickly un-nunne and disfriar themſelves, […]

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

unnun

1. Rōmaji transcription of うんぬん