unboy

verb

unboy

verb

Etymology From un- + boy.

1

To divest of the traits of a boy.

  • it was now time to unboy him, by putting him into some action and acquaintance of business1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:

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