unsake

verb

unsake

verb

Etymology From Middle English onsaken, from Old English onsacan (“to attack, strive against”), from Proto-Germanic *ansakaną, *andsakaną (“to resist, object”), equivalent to un- + sake. Cognate with Old Saxon andsakan, antsakan (“to deny, defend oneself”).

Obsolete, Rare To forsake.

But he that unsakes (forsakes) me before men, I unsake him before Father mine he that is in heaven.1807, The Gothic Gospel of Saint Matthew

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