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Unform vs Urform - What's the difference?

unform | urform |

As a verb unform

is to decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; to unmake.

As a noun urform is

a basic or original form; protoform.

unform

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; to unmake.
    • (Good)
    (Webster 1913)

    urform

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A basic or original form; protoform.
  • *2003 , David M. Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture :
    • Then by careful comparison they constructed a genealogy, finally deriving the outline of the ur-form , from which all other variants stemmed.
  • *2007 , Donald Haase, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales :
    • Thus he finally was able to present some suppositions about a folktale's origins: the time and place, as well as the urform (basic or original form).
  • *2010 , Rachel Cowgill, David Cooper, Clive Brown, Art and Ideology in European Opera :
    • This Ur-form' brings together the 'oriental' stasis of a non-Western drone, in the form of various pedal-points ... It maybe too much to argue that the ' Ur-form , as a hidden version of the oriental, is Djamileh's equivalent to Namouna's ironic [...]