unbreathed

American  

[uhn-breethd] / ʌnˈbriðd /

adjective

1. not breathed.

   unbreathed air.

2. not disclosed; uncommunicated, as a secret.

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Etymology

Origin of unbreathed

First recorded in 1580–90; un- ¹ + breathed

Example Sentences

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unbreathed

Unfortunately, much of it seems commonplace, passionless, unbreathed upon.

From Time Magazine Archive

For though a slave, or a man living under a servile political system, may develop many fine qualities of character: yet such virtues will, in Milton's words, be but 'fugitive and cloistered', 'unexercised and unbreathed'.

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney

There are subtle, unbreathed temptations which all men and all women, when tortured by jealousy, not only understand but divine before they are actually in being.

From Studies in love and in terror by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

Sometimes a wilder track led Stair and Louis unbreathed across an open moor, the path being too narrow to ride abreast, when it was the mare's privilege to lead.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

From scenes of art which chase   That thought away, turn, and with watchful eyes   Feed it 'mid Nature's old felicities, Rocks, rivers, and smooth lakes more clear than glass Untouch'd, unbreathed upon.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir