Unblesses

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Strips a person of a blessing or divine favor once bestowed upon them ; takes away the sacred consecration that had been conferred on a place or object
2. Withdraws the grace or favor that a higher power had granted to someone ; renders a thing no longer holy or set apart as sacred
3. Revokes blessing from a individual and robs an object or place of its consecrated status ; leaves something stripped of its sacred or hallowed character

Etymology: "Unblesses" is simply the third-person singular form of "unbless," which means to take away a blessing or to remove the sacred status conferred by one. The verb is formed from the prefix "un-" attached to "bless," a pairing that English has long used to reverse or undo an action, as in "unbolt," "unmask," or "untie." The "-es" ending is the regular present-tense inflection that marks a verb whose subject is "he," "she," or "it."