cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unpardoning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpardoning
form: most unpardoning
Etymology: From un- + pardoning.
Senses: examples: text: He did not reflect on the consequences of such an unpardoning spirit in its operation on his mind.
ref: 1894, George Meredith, Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete:
text: Certainly the despairing anguish that she had felt, the submission to his unpardoning wrath, the tacit agreement that the discovery gave him license to do anything he liked with her, not only then but throughout the future--all this pertained to a state of mind which could be coldly recollected, but which could not be warmly revived.
ref: 1914, W. B. Maxwell, The Devil's Garden:
text: For the first time she had been brought face to face with sin and falsehood, and hers was the unpardoning white condemnation of an angel to whom sin is unknown and falsehood impossible.
ref: 1920, Marie Conway Oemler, Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man:
glosses: That does not pardon; unforgiving.
unterrifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unterrifying
form: most unterrifying
Etymology: From un- + terrifying.
Senses: glosses: Not terrifying.
New Zealand English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The form of the English language used in New Zealand.
wikipedia: New Zealand English
Synonyms: word: Nu Zillund
entrigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrigues
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intrigue.
entrigue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: entrigues
form: entriguing
form: entrigued
form: entrigued
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intrigue.
rhetorick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhetoricks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rhetoric.
atheistick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atheistick
form: most atheistick
Etymology: From atheist + -ick.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of atheistic.
entreth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: entre + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of entre
entrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: entre + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of entre
girasoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girasole
offreth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: offre + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of offre
offrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: offre + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of offre
remembre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remembres
form: remembring
form: remembred
form: remembred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of remember.
remembrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: remembre + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of remembre
remembreth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: remembre + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remembre
cancell'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cancel
cancell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cancells
form: cancelling
form: cancelled
form: cancelled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cancel.
rendrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: rendre + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of rendre
rendreth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: rendre + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rendre
Tea Party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tea Parties
Etymology: In reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation.
Senses: glosses: Any of various independent, fiscally conservative political groups in the twenty-first-century United States.
Tea Party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tea Party
Etymology: In reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation.
Senses: glosses: Various independent, fiscally conservative political groups in the twenty-first-century United States, taken as a whole.
tea parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea party
gidday
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “Giidday, gidday, welcome aboard, one and all!” There he stands, grinning, larger than life, a nutbrown teddy bear in a black G-string and a cowboy hat, champagne cocktail in one hand, the other held out to hoist us aboard.
ref: 2002, William Brandt, The Book of the Film of the Story of my Life, page 190:
text: “Oh, gidday, Stan”, I said.
ref: 2004, James Roy, Billy Mack's War, page 106:
text: “Gidday”, she says, grinning happily.
“Gidday”, he replies, with a grin for her: it flits over his face and is gone by the time he looks at Joe.
ref: 2005, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, page 132:
glosses: Alternative form of g’day.
CTE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CTEs
Senses: examples: text: NFL players Ray Easterling, Junior Seau, Shane Dronett and Dave Duerson were found to have CTE after careers of repeated blows to the head. All died by suicide.
ref: 2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of coefficient of thermal expansion.
examples: text: A recursive CTE is where an initial CTE is built and then the results from that are called recursively in a UNION statement returning subsets of data until all the data is returned. This gives you the ability to create data in a hierarchical fashion, as you will see in the next example.
ref: 2008, Robin Dewson, Beginning SQL Server 2008 Express for Developers, Apress, →ISBN, page 433:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of common table expression.
CTE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Central Expressway.
raw_tags: in road signs
chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronic traumatic encephalopathies
Senses: examples: text: Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
ref: 2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: CTE
word: dementia pugilistica
word: punch drunk syndrome
coordinate_terms: second impact syndrome
post-concussion syndrome
glosses: A progressive degenerative disease found in individuals who have been subjected to multiple concussions and other forms of head injury.
sends off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of send off
sending off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of send off
sending off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sending offs
form: sendings off
Senses: examples: text: Rooney's sending off will be the main talking point, however, and his actions once again raise questions about his temperament that he looked to have gone a long way towards answering in recent times.
ref: 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An instance of a player being sent off; a dismissal from the field of play.
sending offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sending off
send offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of send off
Florence fennel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Florence fennels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of finocchio (“fennel cultivar”).
synonyms: word: finocchio
extra: fennel cultivar
trapp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trapps
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any dark-colored, fine-grained, non-granitic igneous rock: alternative form of trap.
Florence fennels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Florence fennel
unpigmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pigmented.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: pigmentless; undyed, nondyed, dyeless; uncolored, noncolored, colorless
text: When the changes produced by congestion are visible, as in the eye, the nostril, the mouth, the genital organs, and on the surface of the body in white or unpigmented animals, the part appears red from the increase of blood[…]
ref: 1916, United States Department of Agriculture, Special Report on Diseases of the Horse:
synonyms: nonpigmented
antonyms: pigmented
repigmented
overpigmented
hyperpigmented
coordinate_terms: depigmented
underpigmented
hypopigmented
glosses: Not pigmented.
Related terms: nonpigment
nonpigmentary
unplaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + planed.
Senses: examples: text: He was just as polite in his attentions as if the unplaned seat had been a carved chair of graceful shape and pattern.
ref: 1876, Pansy, Four Girls at Chautauqua:
text: The table standing in the centre of the floor, ready for the evening meal, was made of unplaned boards, rudely put together by the unskilled hands of the backwoods.
ref: 1903, Nancy Huston Banks, Round Anvil Rock:
glosses: Not planed.
unprecedently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unprecedently
form: most unprecedently
Etymology: From un- + precedent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the fact that these women were starved and badly clad and deprived of the comforts of home, the death rate of the infants dropped steadily to an unprecedently low mark.
ref: 1916, W. Grant Hague, M.D., The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.):
text: Chingchou Prefecture, comprising several counties in Hupei Province, suffered a disastrous three years, and its tribulations were not unique. Massive floods rolled over one county in 1830, drowning hundreds of thousands and befouling the rice fields with sand. The dikes restraining the Yangtze River collapsed in a neighbouring county in 1831 and half the population starved to death. In 1832, the prefectural capital suffered a severe famine while, elsewhere in Chingchou, cholera struck down tens of thousands and the normal autumnal floods were unprecedently severe.
ref: 1963, Robert S. Elegant, “The Rich Impoverished, the Poor Starving”, in The Centre of the World: Communism and the Mind of China, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, page 51:
text: The 72‐year‐old Mr. Brezhnev, speaking in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, reserved his toughest language for the Chinese, whose invasion of Vietnam began Feb. 17. He called it an “unprecedently brazen bandit attack” in which the Chinese rulers “revealed fully to the whole world the perfidious, aggressive essence of the great‐power policy pursued by them.”
ref: 1979 March 3 [1979 March 2], Leonid I. Brezhnev, quotee, “BREZHNEV CONDEMNS CHINESE, BUT VOICES NO MILITARY THREAT”, in The New York Times, sourced from Moscow, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2025, page 1:
text: In a letter to U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Gorbachev said that although it produced no practical results, the Reykjavik summit had at least raised the cause of nuclear disarmament to "an unprecedently high plateau."
ref: 1987 January 11 [1987 January 10], Mikhail Gorbachev, quotee, “GORBACHEV SAYS WASHINGTON IGNORED HIS INITIATIVES”, in The Washington Post, sourced from Washington Post Foreign Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2025:
glosses: In a manner or to a degree that has no precedent.
Related terms: unprecedentedly
unprecarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprecarious
form: most unprecarious
Etymology: From un- + precarious.
Senses: glosses: Not precarious.
unpremeditation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + premeditation.
Senses: examples: text: The man who can carry through a carefully premeditated scene with an air of complete unpremeditation has an immense advantage. "Mr. Lester," he began, "I understand that you are the administrator of the estate of the late Philip Vantine?" "
ref: 1911, Burton Egbert Stevenson, chapter 13, in The Mystery Of The Boule Cabinet:
text: With a gesture as automatic as drawing breath, he jerked out his watch and looked at it, apparently to make sure of catching his trolley, although his valedictory was poured out with such a passionate unpremeditation that the action must have been involuntary and unconscious.
ref: 1912, Dorothy Canfield, chapter 29, in The Squirrel-Cage, New York: Henry Holt & Co, page 327:
text: […] on the plane, I had taken to Jimmie also because of his seeming unpremeditation in talking to me in the first place.
ref: 1958, Muriel Spark, chapter 3, in Robinson, London: Macmillan:
glosses: Lack of premeditation; spontaneity.
unpartitionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + partitionable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be partitioned.
unpracticable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpracticable
form: most unpracticable
Etymology: From un- + practicable.
Senses: examples: text: But so unpracticable is this design, that although sometimes conceived, it is never executed; the civil magistrate knows that it would be utterly destructive of human society; sublime as may be the ideal justice that it supposes, he sets it aside on the calculation of its bad consequences.
ref: 1869, Alexander Bain, Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics:
text: It has been urged, "You are unpracticable; you want a world of tramps--how are you going to live?"
ref: 1913, Stephen Graham, A Tramp's Sketches:
glosses: Not practicable.
unpitied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pitied.
Senses: examples: text: Four years after, this military adventurer, who had given so much trouble, died in a mean tavern in Philadelphia, disgraced, unpitied, and forlorn.
ref: 1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI:
text: Free to go in rags, to live like beasts, to die unpitied and be thrown into a hole, or left to rot i' the sun--call ye this freedom, forsooth?
ref: 1915, Jeffery Farnol, Beltane The Smith:
glosses: Not pitied.
unpraised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpraised
form: most unpraised
Etymology: From un- + praised.
Senses: examples: text: The advocates of humanity are not yet become too numerous: but those who practise its divine precepts, however humble and unnoticed be their station, ought not to sink into obscurity, unrecorded and unpraised, with the vile monsters who deride misery and fatten on calamity.
ref: 1788, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson:
glosses: Not praised.
uncalamitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncalamitous
form: most uncalamitous
Etymology: From un- + calamitous.
Senses: glosses: Not calamitous.
unpregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pregnant.
Senses: examples: text: Again, a wife, unpregnant, and when she rightfully wishes to remain so, may be somewhat fearful of becoming pregnant when she meets her husband, and so hesitate to give her passion full play, thereby missing the utmost delights of an embrace--but if she be pregnant, and so has no fear on this score, she can give herself up to utter abandonment to her impulses.
ref: 1919, H.W. Long, Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living:
text: The most offensive portrayal is John O'Meara's tortured Leontes: he milks every line with an unpregnant pause.
ref: 1999 March 19, Lawrence Bommer, “The Winter's Tale”, in Chicago Reader:
text: I've read that people in their 30s only talk about babies and real estate, but since my friends and I are all broke and unpregnant, all we have is the naked fact of aging, stripped of the signifiers of responsibility.
ref: 2007 April 27, Jessica Hopper, “Not Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll, Not Too Young to Die”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not pregnant.
unprotesting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprotesting
form: most unprotesting
Etymology: From un- + protesting.
Senses: examples: text: And yet she could find nothing to say in opposition to this; consequently, she had walked away unprotesting, and that act was so contrary to her disposition that it saddened her.
ref: 1898, Frank Richard Stockton, The Girl at Cobhurst:
text: Just as the parental attitude toward the nearest neighbours suggested a kindly but unsentimental tolerance of inferiors, so it became unmistakably tinged with a slightly jealous but unprotesting submission to superiors whenever the lower floors were reached.
ref: 1922, Edwin Bjorkman, The Soul of a Child:
glosses: Not protesting; compliant, docile.
unpunctuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unpunctualities
Etymology: From un- + punctuality.
Senses: examples: text: Thank you—but there is no escaping these little vexations, Mary, live where we may; and when you are settled in town and I come to see you, I dare say I shall find you with yours, in spite of the nurseryman and the poulterer—or perhaps on their very account. Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds will be drawing forth bitter lamentations.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 84:
text: Yule soon became so accustomed to the din as to be undisturbed by the noise, but the unpunctuality and carelessness of the native workmen sorely tried his patience, of which Nature had endowed him with but a small reserve.
ref: 1902, Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa, The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1:
text: Thus he made a habit of long walks after dark on week-days and of unpunctuality at meals.
ref: 1922, May Sinclair, Anne Severn and the Fieldings:
text: There is one golden rule of timetable work, that if a passenger train never runs to time it must be altered or other trains must be altered so that it can shake off its chronic unpunctuality.
ref: 1943 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Preparation of Timetables”, in Railway Magazine, page 75:
text: Thirty-one years ago I joined a railway in rather a hurry. My father's sudden death had just released the Metropolitan from the most persistent, accurate and belligerent critic of its unpunctuality. We were brought up in the belief that all trains ran to time before the war - the Kaiser's war.
ref: 1960 April, G. F. Fiennes, “Unpunctuality - the cause and the cure”, in Trains Illustrated, page 205:
glosses: Not being punctual; lateness.
unpunctualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unpunctuality
unquarried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + quarried.
Senses: examples: text: The granite for his monument lies unquarried nor is its erection needed.
ref: 1888, Harry A. Lewis, Hidden Treasures:
text: He touched the heights of the Misty City and the sea-fog that had walled it in through the night as with walls of unquarried marble--albeit the eaves had dripped in the darkness as after a summer shower--and anon the opaque vapors dissolved and fled away.
ref: 1912, Charles Warren Stoddard, In the Footprints of the Padres:
glosses: Not quarried.
quarriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quarriable
form: most quarriable
Etymology: From quarry + -able.
Senses: examples: quarriable granite
glosses: Capable of being quarried.
unreaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reaped.
Senses: examples: text: The rust has attacked the fields which promised the fairest, and they are left unreaped, to feed the quails and the prairie-hens.
ref: 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller:
text: So unhealthy is this valley, which is the home of large game, that whole kraals full of people who have tried to cultivate the rich land, have died in it of fever, or fled away leaving their crops unreaped.
ref: 1917, H. Rider Haggard, Finished:
glosses: Not reaped.
unrebuked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unrebukid; equivalent to un- + rebuked.
Senses: examples: text: At length we resolved that Truth and we were not made for each other, and, having verified the accuracy of this conclusion by uttering it unrebuked in Truth's own palace, quitted the unblest spot with all possible expedition.
ref: 1903, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales:
text: But Eve might: it was "done"; even in those circles of hidebound conservatism, the society of the Faubourg St. Germain, ladies of this day smoked unrebuked.
ref: 1921, Louis Joseph Vance, Alias The Lone Wolf:
glosses: Not rebuked.
unreclaimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreclaimed
form: most unreclaimed
Etymology: From un- + reclaimed.
Senses: examples: text: It is a creek only by courtesy or an Americanism, at the present day; but when those miles of fertile fields upon the north were unreclaimed, the dank herbage hindered evaporation, and Easton's Pond was fed by unfailing streams.
ref: 1858, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858:
text: Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive.
ref: 1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo:
glosses: Not reclaimed.
unreeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unreeves
form: unreeving
form: unreeved
form: unreeved
Etymology: From Middle English *unreven (attested only in past participle unrevyn) equivalent to un- + reeve.
Senses: examples: text: He could not only splice a broken "fall," and repair the sheaves and friction-rollers in a hoisting-block, but whenever the rigging got tangled aloft he could spring up the derrick like a cat and unreeve the rope in an instant.
ref: 1896, F. Hopkinson Smith, Tom Grogan:
text: But he carried all sail till the rotten main-sheet parted at the boom, and when he came up in the wind to lower the sail the main throat halyard refused to unreeve.
ref: 1909, A. W. Dimock, Dick in the Everglades:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To withdraw or take out, as for example a rope from a block.
Related terms: unreave
unreeving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unreeve
unreeves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unreeve
unreeved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unreeve
unproportioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unproportioned
form: most unproportioned
Etymology: From un- + proportioned.
Senses: examples: text: The teaching school, an useful and virtuous occupation, even the teaching in a private family, was in every Catholic subjected to the same unproportioned punishment.
ref: 1887, Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12):
text: At last the story of Winnie Verloc stood out complete from the days of her childhood to the end, unproportioned as yet, with everything still on the first plan, as it were; but ready now to be dealt with.
ref: 1921, Joseph Conrad, Notes on My Books:
glosses: Not proportioned.
unpropitiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unpropitious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unpropitious.
unrepealed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + repealed.
Senses: examples: text: On this day, the order for the call of the house, which had been prolonged, standing unrepealed, there was a large attendance of members.
ref: 1839, Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the:
text: All those laws which give to the irresponsible officers of the Executive Government of India absolute powers to override the popular will, are still unrepealed.
ref: 1922, Mahatma Gandhi, Freedom's Battle:
glosses: Not repealed.
unrepealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + repealed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unrepeal
unrepining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrepining
form: most unrepining
Etymology: From un- + repining.
Senses: examples: text: This prostration and sweet unrepining obedience exquisitely touched and flattered George Osborne.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: We need not lift the veil from the brief interview which the consideration of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton afforded to the lovers, it is enough that they were happy, happy in the consciousness not of present joy alone, but of duty unshrinkingly performed, of pain endured with unrepining fortitude; unalloyed in its purity indeed was their happiness, for it was the recompense of virtue.
ref: 1859, Grace Aguilar, The Mother's Recompense, Volume II.:
glosses: Not repining.
repiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repiners
Etymology: From repine + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who repines.
repiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repiner
unrepented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrepented
form: most unrepented
Etymology: From un- + repented.
Senses: examples: text: [34] He was going to heaven, he said, by the help of St. Francis, who came on purpose to fetch him, when a black angel met them, and demanded his absolved, indeed, but unrepented victim.
ref: 1846, Leigh Hunt, Stories from the Italian Poets= With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1:
text: To describe a wanderer on the face of the earth, driven hither and thither by pursuing vengeance as the first recorded murderer, the poet was obliged by all the rules of art to put such sentiments into his mouth as accorded with his unrepented crime and his dreadful agonies of mind and soul.
ref: 1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII:
glosses: Not repented of.
unreplaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + replaced.
Senses: examples: text: They were clearly formed by replacement of the schists particle by particle, as shown by the frequent preservation of the schist structure in a banding of the sulphide minerals, the residual shreds of unreplaced schist material in the ores, and the usual gradual transition from unreplaced schists to those completely replaced by massive sulphides.
ref: 1921, C. K. Leith, The Economic Aspect of Geology:
text: At this same time, my copy began coming back to me uncorrected; words whited out and not replaced in the haste of a deadline remained unreplaced, spelling errors (and I don't mean "potatoe") remained uncorrected.
ref: 1992 August 28, Bobby London, “Blood, Sweat, and Ink”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not replaced.
unreprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reprinted.
Senses: examples: text: After the publication in London of the Pisan edition of Adonais, the poem remained unreprinted until 1829.
ref: 1891, Shelley, Adonais:
text: The chief monument of them is the long unreprinted Friendship's Garland, which has always had some fervent devotees, and is very characteristic.
ref: 1902, George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold:
glosses: Not reprinted.
unrenewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + renewed.
Senses: examples: text: There was not, in fact, in all the reorganized house, a place where he felt himself to be at all the proper thing; nowhere where he could lounge, and read his newspaper, without a feeling of impropriety; nowhere that he could indulge in any of the slight Hottentot-isms wherein unrenewed male nature delights,--without a feeling of rebuke.
ref: 1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pink and White Tyranny:
text: Here also, as in the stables, the technical knowledge of the Founder is seen; his "chambers," after more than 500 years, have still their old stone unrenewed; while the third story, added 300 years later on (1674-5), has had to be entirely refaced.
ref: 1920, J. Wells, The Charm of Oxford:
glosses: Not renewed.
unrepealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrepealable
form: most unrepealable
Etymology: From un- + repealable.
Senses: examples: text: Make these provisions, together with three-fifths representation, unrepealable.
ref: 1890, John George Nicolay, John Hay, Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2:
text: Of the two great poets to whom the world's unrepealable verdict has assigned the foremost place in their several kinds, we know in one case absolutely nothing, and next to nothing in the other.
ref: 1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII:
glosses: Not repealable.
unrepatriated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + repatriated.
Senses: examples: unrepatriated American prisoners of war
glosses: Not repatriated.
unrisen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + risen.
Senses: examples: text: For to the North I saw the town on fire,
And its red light made morning pallid now, […]
And now the horsemen come—and all was done
Swifter than I have spoken—I beheld
Their red swords flash in the unrisen sun.
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 262:
text: High above all else, the domes of the Sacred Heart were white with the rays of the unrisen sun, like those of the City which came down from God. It was so different from the cheerful Paris of broad daylight that she was drawing back with a shudder, when over the Pont de la Concorde she discerned the approach of a motor-brougham.
ref: 1909, Basil King, The Inner Shrine:
text: It went now between long straight ramparts of hills that showed enormous and dark against a sky cleared to twilight by the unrisen moon.
ref: 1918, May Sinclair, The Tree of Heaven:
glosses: Not risen.
unsprung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sprung.
Senses: examples: text: an unsprung trap
text: the unsprung weight of a vehicle
text: The locomotive is carried on two six-wheel bogies, the outer axles of each bogie being driven by series type d.c. motors, completely suspended to reduce the unsprung weight to a minimum.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Gas Turbine-Electric Locomotive for G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 26:
text: Amongst the factors peculiar to electric m.u. traction are the heavy unsprung weight of the motors (generally, the greater the weight, the worse is the riding); […].
ref: 1960 February, “Letters to the Editor”, in Trains Illustrated, page 125:
glosses: Not sprung.
examples: text: He had an unsprung trailer for the job[.]
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 169:
glosses: Not fitted with springs; lacking springs.
unsprung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unspring
unrighteously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrighteously
form: most unrighteously
Etymology: From unrighteous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Set a happy and an influential example to your fellow slaveholders, by a righteous treatment of those, whom you unrighteously hold in bondage.
ref: 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus:
text: On the other hand, there are persons who have continually disapproved of the principle of compensation for a wrong given up, or the loss of an advantage unrighteously purchased.
ref: 1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War:
glosses: In an unrighteous manner.
righteousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of righteous
righteoused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of righteous
unrespectful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrespectful
form: most unrespectful
Etymology: From un- + respectful.
Senses: examples: text: The character, however, of which the assumed name is truly expressive, deserves from us no unrespectful attention; we shall best possess our readers of it by laying before them one or two passages from the preface.
ref: 1885, John Ruskin, On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2):
text: This, supported by Whalley and Goffe, calmed the meeting somewhat; and, after much more speaking, in which the necessity of a separation of the military power from the civil was a prominent topic, the result was "A Humble Representation and Petition of the Officers of the Armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland," expressed in general and not unrespectful terms, but conveying sufficiently the Army's demands.
ref: 1877, David Masson, The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660:
glosses: Not respectful.
Derived terms: unrespectfully
unrespectfulness
Related terms: disrespectful
unresented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + resented.
Senses: examples: text: This indifference was so offensive to his high heart, that he began to change the Tender into the Terrible, and, in short, proceeded at last to treat her in a style too grossly insulting for the meanest female ear to endure unresented.
ref: 1898, Edward Robins, The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield:
text: Meantime, Jan's prestige had been lowered in the eyes of half a dozen other dogs, each one of whom would certainly presume upon the unresented affront they had seen put upon him by their common enemy.
ref: 1915, A. J. Dawson, Jan:
glosses: Not resented.
unreproved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reproved.
Senses: examples: text: No good riding master will teach a pupil to cluck or will permit the practice to pass unreproved, and riding-school horses do not understand it, and are quite as likely to start at the cluck of a rider on the other side of the ring as they are when a similar noise is made by the person on their own backs.
ref: 1890, Theo. Stephenson Browne, In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda:
glosses: Not reproved.
unreproving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreproving
form: most unreproving
Etymology: From un- + reproving.
Senses: examples: text: Then struck with a sense of her own violence and impetuosity, contrasted with her cousin's meek unreproving manner, Lady Emily threw her arms round her, begging pardon, and assuring her she did not mean her.
ref: 1881, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Marriage:
text: Ross watched her deteriorate in gloomy and unreproving silence.
ref: 1906, David Graham Phillips, The Second Generation:
glosses: Not reproving.
unremitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unremitted
form: most unremitted
Etymology: From un- + remitted.
Senses: examples: text: The Rosencrucians not only believed that these events must happen, but they also endeavoured to accelerate them by unremitted exertions.
ref: 1835, An Oxonian, Thaumaturgia:
text: In the manners of Colonel Egerton there was the same general disposition to please, and the same unremitted attention to the wishes and amusements of Jane.
ref: 1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution:
glosses: Not remitted or allowed to slacken; continued.
unregretted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unregretted
form: most unregretted
Etymology: From un- + regretted.
Senses: examples: text: To her bequeath'd them with his parting breath, And sunk serene in unregretted death.
ref: 1828, Thomas Gent, Poems (1828):
text: It fell without a struggle or a groan, unpitied and unregretted.
ref: 1912, John Lingard, Hilaire Belloc, The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans:
text: The old witch doctor and his son had disappeared, perhaps to try their skill with a neighbouring tribe, but the loss of his watch was unregretted by Connolly.
ref: 1964, J. G. Ballard, A Question of Re-entry:
glosses: Not regretted.
unregenerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + regenerated.
Senses: examples: text: The merchant proceeded on his way marvelling in his heart at the uncharitableness and innate wickedness of unregenerated human nature.
ref: 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Firm of Girdlestone:
text: The houses themselves are so horrible in their condition, and have been so remodeled from time to time, to meet Celestial ideas and fall in with notions which are but a relic of barbarism, that not even a colored man of the most degraded type can be persuaded to live permanently in a house which has ever been occupied by an unregenerated denizen of Chinatown.
ref: 1903, James Cox, My Native Land:
glosses: Not regenerated; unimproved.
unseized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + seized.
Senses: examples: text: The other member, by whose felt but unseized identity he had been haunted, was the unconsciously insolent form of guaranteed happiness he had just been engaged with.
ref: 1910, Henry James, The Finer Grain:
text: The French did both, and took all of this part of the world they could find unseized by Europe, and tamable, at not too great a shedding of French blood.
ref: 1921, Frederick O'Brien, Mystic Isles of the South Seas.:
glosses: Not seized.
unsensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsensible
form: most unsensible
Etymology: From Middle English unsensible, equivalent to un- + sensible.
Senses: examples: text: "Hear, hear," and Joanna passed out of the conversation, for who was going to waste time either taking up or taking down a silly, tedious, foreign, unsensible notion like ploughing grass?...
ref: 1921, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Joanna Godden:
glosses: Not sensible; silly, foolish.
examples: text: There is no breeze, no slightest shift of air-particles; yet down the gorge comes this cloud,--a cloud unsensible except to nostrils,--eddying as if swirling around the edges of leaves, riding on the air as gently as the low, distant crooning of great, sleepy jungle doves.
ref: 1921, William Beebe, Edge of the Jungle:
glosses: That cannot be sensed; imperceptible.
glosses: Out of one's senses; unconscious.
Derived terms: unsensibly
Related terms: insensible
insensitive
nonsensible
nonsensical
unsensitive
unseduced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + seduced.
Senses: examples: text: He survived all this: lived with so much dignity; silent, yet thoughtful; unseduced by the offers of gain or of advancement however tempting; disdaining to enter into contests for small objects, until the broad disk went down behind the Virginia hills, shedding its departing lustre not only upon this country but upon the whole world.
ref: 1876, John Esten Cooke, A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee:
text: Happily one or two--rari nantes in gurgito vasto--survive amid the democratic welter; and all who have at heart not only the interests of literature, but the true interests of the public taste, will pray that they will have the courage to maintain their distinction, unseduced by the moneyed voice of the mob--a distinction to which, after all, they have owed, and will continue to owe, their success.
ref: 1915, Richard Le Gallienne, Vanishing Roads and Other Essays:
glosses: Not seduced.
unseizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unseizable
form: most unseizable
Etymology: From un- + seizable.
Senses: examples: text: A large packet of 'Text Books'--left for that purpose by Norrish, if the truth were known-- whose covers were the same color as those of the 'Fruits', attracted Mr. Outram's attention, and he took off some of the brown paper wrapper, but found the goods unseizable.
ref: 1885, Annie Besant, Autobiographical Sketches:
text: He eluded all pursuit, and his name--or at least the name he gave himself--was known all over the world, and inspired horror and terror everywhere, as being that of a legendary personage, a bogey, invisible and unseizable.
ref: 1897, Mrs. Cashel Hoey, Facing the Flag:
text: For a moment she was lost in the pursuit of an unseizable clue--the explanation of this monstrous last perversity of fate.
ref: 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country:
glosses: That cannot be seized or grasped.
unscholastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unscholastic
form: most unscholastic
Etymology: From un- + scholastic.
Senses: examples: text: Both characteristics were so well developed that the hours they spent in the schoolroom were chiefly devoted to exploits of a most unscholastic nature.
ref: 1901, Anna Chapin Ray, Teddy: Her Book:
text: You are not free, yet, to be as useful at home as you would like to be; your mother has to do without a daughter, to a large extent, or to avail herself of one with the uncomfortable feeling that the daughter is losing valuable time thereby, and probably is considering herself a martyr in having to do unscholastic duties.
ref: 1903, Lucy H. M. Soulsby, Stray Thoughts for Girls:
glosses: Not scholastic.
unsalutary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsalutary
form: most unsalutary
Etymology: From un- + salutary.
Senses: examples: text: Such Nations cannot have a King to command them; can only have this or the other scandalous swindling Copper Captain, constitutional Gilt Mountebank, or other the like unsalutary entity by way of King; and the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children in a frightful and tragical manner, little noticed in the Penny Newspapers and Periodical Literatures of this generation.
ref: 1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XXI. (of XXI.):
text: It furnished a strong, and perhaps not an unsalutary contrast, to the terrors which had preceded, and the dreadful scenes that awaited me.
ref: 1903, William Godwin, Caleb Williams:
glosses: Not salutary.
unsapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsapped
form: most unsapped
Etymology: From un- + sapped.
Senses: examples: text: His cheeks were wrinkled like a last year's apple, but his sweep of shoulder, and bony, corded hands, told of a strength which was unsapped by age.
ref: 1895, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Green Flag:
text: He felt her unsapped joyous living like a blow on his own aching weariness.
ref: 1922, I. A. R. Wylie, The Dark House:
glosses: Not sapped.
unsatisfaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsatisfactions
Etymology: From un- + satisfaction.
Senses: examples: text: And, too, I suffer a vague feeling of unsatisfaction, of regret, of almost remorse, from which I am seeking relief, and of which I shall speak in the last paragraph of this account.
ref: 1912, James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man:
text: A very frequent cause of married unsatisfaction is the fact of the difference of time that it takes for the husband and wife to come to the climax, the orgasm.
ref: 1919, H.W. Long, Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living:
glosses: dissatisfaction
unsatisfactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unsatisfaction
unsectarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + sectarianism.
Senses: examples: text: It suffered the fate of all unsectarianism, and made him to be as one man in the midst of foes.
ref: 1873, Various, The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI.:
text: They have been at all times the advocates of perfect equality in religion, and of unsectarianism in education.
ref: 1912, Various, Against Home Rule (1912):
text: It is that every sectarian is more sectarian in his unsectarianism than he is in his sect.
ref: 1922, G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America:
glosses: Absence of sectarianism.
unshrived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shrived.
Senses: examples: text: Christians have been called into the dread presence, unconfessed and unshrived, to-night; and we should bethink us of their souls, rather than indulge in this grief in behalf of one that, however faithful, ends but an unreasoning and irresponsible existence."
ref: 1860, James Fenimore Cooper, The Headsman:
text: Sprung from the carnival dances, where the masked Death forcing the terrified maidens to his embrace led them to the cemeteries to celebrate the memory of the dead, the priest countenanced these masks as religious rites and taught the superstitious people that their gifts would ease the souls of those sent suddenly unshrived to hell.
ref: 1916, Mrs. Reginald de Koven, The Counts of Gruyere:
text: I cannot get at Priestley, the originator of the wicked fable that has deceived so many honest men, and Walker, his partner in iniquity, as they have long ago gone to the grave, no doubt unrepentant and unshrived.
ref: 1941 January, “Notes and News: Anglesey's Ghost Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 36:
glosses: Not shrived.
unslaughtered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + slaughtered.
Senses: examples: text: After that furious battle, producing rivers of blood, had commenced, and when a remnant only of the brave samsaptakas, O Bharata, were left unslaughtered, Dhrishtadyumna, O monarch, with all the kings (on the Pandava side) and those mighty car-warriors--the Pandavas themselves, all rushed against Karna only.
ref: 1883-1896, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3:
text: We might have spared ourselves the trouble, and our forty oxen remained unslaughtered.
ref: 1910, L Muehlbach, The Merchant of Berlin:
glosses: Not slaughtered.
That has not yet been slaughtered.
raw_tags: of an animal or person
glosses: Not slaughtered.
Derived from an animal that died some way other than being slaughtered.
raw_tags: of meat
undaughterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undaughterly
form: most undaughterly
Etymology: From un- + daughterly.
Senses: examples: text: Shakespeare's King Lear accuses Cordelia of undaughterly conduct.
glosses: Not daughterly.
unsolaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsolaced
form: most unsolaced
Etymology: From un- + solaced.
Senses: examples: text: Thus studying, teaching, and planning; laboring with her hands, and enduring pain, sickness, and sorrow; unsolaced by Christian society, except her husband's,--three anxious years passed.
ref: 1873, Thomas Webster, Woman: Man's Equal:
text: He was unsolaced either by candy or smoke and looked tired and not particularly happy.
ref: 1921, Margaret Rebecca Piper, Wild Wings:
glosses: Not solaced.
unsympathising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsympathising
form: most unsympathising
Etymology: From un- + sympathising.
Senses: examples: text: Resolving upon starting in business untrammelled by covetous or unsympathising partners, Wedgwood now engaged the potwork and house at Burslem known as the Ivy House, which belonged to his relations, John and Thomas Wedgwood, who carried on the same trade at what was called the Big House.
ref: The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal (volume 126, page 218)
glosses: Alternative form of unsympathizing.
unsolid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsolid
form: most unsolid
Etymology: From un- + solid.
Senses: examples: text: By this idea of solidity is the extension of body distinguished from the extension of space:--the extension of body being nothing but the cohesion or continuity of solid, separable, movable parts; and the extension of space, the continuity of unsolid, inseparable, and immovable parts.
ref: 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.:
text: And equally unsolid is the argument that from a principle of gradation in races would reduce a principle of progress in races.
ref: 1921, Theodore Graebner, Evolution:
glosses: Not solid.