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Unteach   Listen
verb
Unteach  v. t.  (past & past part. untaught; pres. part. unteaching)  
1.
To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught. "Experience will unteach us." "One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule."
2.
To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned.





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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


Words linked to "Unteach" :   instruct, unlearn


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