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Unteach

verb
(past & past part. untaught; pres. part. unteaching)
1.
Cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier.
2.
Cause to unlearn.






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"Unteach" Quotes from Famous Books



... genuine love of God was essentially connected with loving truth as truth, and not truth as our own accustomed thought, truth as our old prejudice; and that the real saint can never be afraid to let God teach him one lesson more, or unteach him one more error. Then I rejoiced to feel how right and sound had been our principle, that no creed can possibly be used as the touchstone of spirituality: for man morally excels man, as far as creeds are concerned, not by assenting to true ...
— Phases of Faith - Passages from the History of My Creed • Francis William Newman

... fum me, sir. Oh, my Lawd, sir, that's one of the worst parts of it! I don't dare teach him mine, much less unteach him his mother's. She's as spirited as ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable



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