Advertisement
Advertisement
unto
[ uhn-too; unstressed uhn-tuh ]
preposition
- to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- until; till.
unto
/ ˈʌԳٳː /
preposition
- an archaic word for to 1
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of unto1
Idioms and Phrases
see do unto others ; law unto oneself .Compare Meanings
How does unto compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:
Example Sentences
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.
But the loss of that metaphorical heart — and I do think the movie business as we’ve long understood it is never coming back; it’s a subsidiary of the tech industry now, no longer an industry unto itself — is meaningful.
To his evangelical true-believers, who no doubt spent a grip of similar Sundays learning about "doing unto the least of you" and being "strangers in Egypt," he shared a sermon of outright hate for immigrants and the judiciary.
The Ratliffs are a class unto themselves – isolationists on a micro-scale, casually racist and blisteringly ignorant.
But the Ratliffs are a class unto themselves – isolationists on a micro-scale, casually racist and blisteringly ignorant.
Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse