Meaning of ungarnish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To remove military support from
2. To strip of ornaments.

Examples

“His first movement, which, by alarming Villeroy for his left, led him to ungarnish his centre and right, contributed essentially to the success of the day.”

“Should the King of Ava, who conceives his armies to be irresistible, at the same moment invade Chittagong, the opposing those attacks at the two extremities of our empire must ungarnish our prodigiously extended flanks.”

“Gattes and Lyncoln their superiority and his want of Artillery leave no hopes of succeeding untill he receives new reinforcements which he was about sending for to New York tho' at the risk of ungarnishing that place.”

“He told off the two columns as directed, only cutting down their strength a little, so as not wholly to ungarnish Barcelona.”

“M. D'Anjou and M. D'Aumale have sent for money, which is so scant that they are forced to sell their church plate and ungarnish their relics.”

“Moreover if her members be filled with the Holy Ghost, how reach she forth that holy member of her hand, this to even fetch a garment that ungarnishes the temple holy in the first place?”

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