undevil

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ʌnˈdɛvɪl/

Definition of undevil

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (archaic, transitive)To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise or to make less devilish.
    “The boy having gotten a habit of counterfeiting […] would not be undevilled by all their exorcisms.”
    “[...] for the following day, the flowers were watered a quarter of an hour earlier than usual, and the bulfinch was allowed to perch on her finger and chirruped to, with a degree of innocent tenderness that would have undeviled Mephistophiles.”
    “It is hardly more wondrous to undevil a man than it is to restore reason, at a word, to the brain-distracted, the ravening, frenzied bedlamite — the re-enthronement of a mind lost in the darkness of shattered intellect.”

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Etymology

From un- + devil.

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