unsting
verbEtymology From un- + sting.
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Archaic, Figuratively, Often To remove the sting of
- Elegant dissertations on virtue and vice […] will not unsting calamity.a. 1829, John Mitchell Mason, a sermon:
- It unstinged the king of terrors, and filled his soul with humble confidence and joy.1822, Samuel Stearns, A Sermon [on 2 Tim. iv. 7, 8] delivered at the funeral of the Reverend Eliab Stone, page 3: