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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of ungird.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • 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.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Thereupon they uncovered their heads, ungirded their garments and began casting stones behind them.

    Myths and Legends of All Nations Famous Stories from the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian and other sources Various

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