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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ungird .
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Examples
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Were you ungirded of conventions stays and flowed to fill the place you own in natural flesh, unrestrained allure would so ignite this reverie that lust would burst its seams; your naked charm, that promise in your smile, beckons madness in its sweetest form and titillates illicit, luscious dreams.
Archive 2008-08-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008
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And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.
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And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.
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Calandrino standing unbraced and ungirded, strugling and wallowing, like a man quite out of breath: after a little pausing, Bruno thus spake.
The Decameron 2004
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And when it was done Kai Khosrau withdrew him into the inner courts, and he ungirded him of his sash of might, and he laved his limbs in a running stream, and he presented himself in prayer before God his Maker.
The Epic of Kings Firdausi 2002
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And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.
Genesis 24. 1999
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And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell him: Let not the girded boast himself as the ungirded.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Duke Charles pardoned the Ghenters and confirmed the privileges which he had conceded to them, but he exacted that a deputation from the three members [_Trois membres_] of the city should come to Brussels to beg pardon on their knees, bareheaded, ungirded, for all the disorder of St. Lievin.
Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam
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Thereupon they uncovered their heads, ungirded their garments and began casting stones behind them.
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