unfascinate

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ fascinate.

Verb

unfascinate (third-person singular simple present unfascinates, present participle unfascinating, simple past and past participle unfascinated)

  1. (transitive) To free from a state of fascination.
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to this entry?)
      To break this sensual charm, to unfascinate these bedazzled brethren, the writer to the Hebrews institutes a comparison between the two religions, and demonstrates the superior spiritual grandeur, the greater intrinsic worth and dignity of the religion of Christ.
    • 1847, William Mason Cornell, Journal of Health (volumes 2-3, page 294)
      […] such a general knowledge of pathology […] as will unfascinate him in regard to the magic virtues of mysterious remedies […]
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