unschool

Updated: July 5, 2025

Or if, on the other hand, I force my sense to admit what all sober men must reject; if I unschool myself to believe that in what I have just experienced there is no mental illusion; that sorcery is a fact, and a demon world has gates which open to a key that a mortal can forge, who but a saint would not shrink from the practice of powers by which each passing thought of ill might find in a fiend its abettor?

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - A Strange Story — Complete

For myself, I feel more sorrow than resentment; for I am old enough to have heard those talk of England who still, even after the unhappy estrangement, could not unschool their lips from calling her the Mother-Country.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862

Or if, on the other hand, I force my sense to admit what all sober men must reject; if I unschool myself to believe that in what I have just experienced there is no mental illusion; that sorcery is a fact, and a demon world has gates which open to a key that a mortal can forge, who but a saint would not shrink from the practice of powers by which each passing thought of ill might find in a fiend its abettor?

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - A Strange Story — Volume 06