Unproof vs Unroof - What's the difference?
unproof | unroof |
Absence or lack of proof or evidence; prooflessness.
*1997 , Kim Younglae, Broken Knowledge :
*1998 , Stephen David Ross, The Gift of Touch :
*2000 , Mac Wellman, Infrared :
That which is not proven.
*2005 , Martha McCallum, The Scarlet Thread :
To undo the proofing of; expose to the possibility of failure.
*2006 , James Raimes, Gardening at Ginger :
As verbs the difference between unproof and unroof
is that unproof is to undo the proofing of; expose to the possibility of failure while unroof is to remove a roof from, eg a building.As a noun unproof
is absence or lack of proof or evidence; prooflessness.unproof
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- Modern science came to our help in either way of proof or unproof .
- Perhaps anamnesis, remembering forgetting, is another figure of untruth in truth, the unproof , the arbitrariness and unconvincingness, of every proof.
- CONSIDER what it is the inchworm measures with his ridiculous lurch-and-drag walk; he measures his way down the aeons of unproof ; he measures nothing that is not a thought of God; he measures his life that it may be shared with all; [...]
- It is a theory with many unproofs . It has not been demonstrated either theoretically or empirically that time and chance can explain either the universe with its high complexity or man as man.
Etymology 2
From .Verb
(en verb)- [...] but squirrels are smart; they find a way to unproof feeders.