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Unlearn

[uhn-lurn]

verb (used with object)

to forget or lose knowledge of.

to discard or put aside certain knowledge as being false or binding: to unlearn preconceptions.

verb (used without object)

to lose or discard knowledge.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English unlernen. See un-², learn

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unlearn (ʌnˈlɜːn)

—vb , -learns, -learning, -learned, -learnt
	to try to forget (something learnt) or to discard (accumulated knowledge)

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"The lesson which these observations convey is, be, and not seem. Let us acquiesce. Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits. Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great."

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