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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1654-1684
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Unbottomed, p.p. [17th c. Eng. unbottom'd (1674).] Prised free, wrested away (off, from a thing, etc.). Only in fig. context. — 1654-6 Gray Gospel-Call 7.
These that could never be unbottomed off the Covenant of Works a1684 Leighton Comm. Peter 263.
You are your own deceivers in it … and are not careful to have your souls really unbottomed from themselves and built upon Christ
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