Meaning of unpeer | Babel Free

Definitions

To remove from peerage; relinquish one's peerdom.

historical, rare, transitive

Examples

“[…] to destroy⟳ the king and parliament; disinherit his royal posterity; unpeer all the lords, and level them with the dust; […]”

“[…] not that he thought it a degradation for peers to sit⟳ in the House of Commons, but it was a degradation to the peers of Scotland to give⟳ them liberty to unpeer themselves, and to descend from the order⟳ to which they belonged.”

“When the Earl of Selborne died, who as Sir Roundell Palmer had been made Lord Chancellor, his son, a prominent M.P., declared he would not go to the Upper House, that he would unpeer himself.”

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