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Unspoil vs Pristine - What's the difference?

unspoil | pristine |

As a verb unspoil

is to make less spoiled.

As an adjective pristine is

unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.

unspoil

English

Verb

  • To make less spoiled.
  • * 2007 , Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses , Houghton Mifflin Company (2007), ISBN 9780547525242, unnumbered page:
    • The week before, watching her work, Logerwell had called out to her, "I can tell you right now, if you mollycoddle a horse he'll turn out spoilt, and I've had to unspoil plenty of horses that've been girl-broke.
  • * 2007 , Donald Trump & Bill Zanker, Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life , HarperCollins (2007), ISBN 9780061547836, page 155:
    • A few negative people can ruin an entire office environment, which shows you how powerful negativity is. It is so bad, even positive workers can't “unspoil ” it.
  • * 2011 , Jane Douch, From Pamela Jane with Some Honor , Strategic Book Group (2011), ISBN 9781609763565, page 32:
    • As John grew into a toddler he was quite spoilt, so I took the serious responsibility of unspoiling him.

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    pristine

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pristin.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
  • Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.
  • * 2008, J.M. Whitty, N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn & S.C. Peverell, Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia [http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/publications/pubs/freshwater-sawfish-northern-river-shark.pdf]
    • This indicates that the present levels of genetic diversity in P. microdon are not unusually low, although the amount of diversity to be expected in pristine populations of coastal species of elasmobranch remains elusive because all populations investigated to date have suffered some degree of decline (e.g. Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2004, Keeney et al. 2005, Hoelzel et al. 2006, Stow et al. 2006, Lewallen et al. 2007).
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