unparadise
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make (something paradisaical) less like paradise; To spoil the joy of.Examples: "Could you, so rich in rapture, fear an end, That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy, And quite unparadise the realms of light."; "Those joys perchance may pass; a stronger hand May wrest my sceptre, and unparadise The Swerga;"; "Of what avail is learning?—What? But to unparadise man's lot!"transitive
2. (transitive) To expel from or prevent from entering heaven.Examples: "Archangels guard the gates with flaming swords, The same, 'tis said, who at an earlier day Did man unparadise;"; "Thus when some chief persons in Israel were so admirably sinful, that their very righteousness was abominable, their very obedience as bad as rebellion, and their very sacrifices to be expiated' when they delighted in their abominations, as if they would unparadise themselves in hell; and had chosen their own ways as more lovely and eligible than the ways of God; God did threaten to be revenged in these plain words: 'I also will choose their delusions;' or, as the margin that it, 'their devices.' (Isai. lxvi, 3, 4.)"; "It were to put a stumbling-block in the way of many weak brethren, to falsify the admissions of the most extended pastoral experience, yea, to unparadise the souls of many, whom all our charities oblige us to regard as now asleep in Jesus, —to say , that no man could be saved, who had not at all times, perceptibly to himself, the witness of the Spirit bearing witness with his spirit that he belonged to the children of God."transitive
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