untreasure

English

Etymology

un- +‎ treasure

Verb

untreasure (third-person singular simple present untreasures, present participle untreasuring, simple past and past participle untreasured)

  1. (transitive, obsolete, poetic) To despoil of treasure.
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
      When Cluffe […] returned to the drawing-room, […] he was a good deal chagrined to find the drawing-room 'untreasured of its mistress.'
  2. (transitive, obsolete, poetic) To display or set forth.
    • J. Mitford
      the quaintness with which he untreasured, as by rote, the stores of his memory
    • 1916, Austin Dobson, A Madrigal
      Before me, careless lying,
      Young Love his ware comes crying
      Full soon the elf untreasures
      His pack of pains and pleasures.

References

untreasure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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