act
noun
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance.
unacted
-
a word derived from
act.
Example Sentences
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The negations multiply swiftly, forming a rich pattern in reverse; spawned by an initial gesture of refusal, our unacted history outgrows the narrow compass of accomplished lives.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2013
The work was not staged originally but sung, unacted, before painted scenery.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2011
NBC has an advantage, if it can be called that, in having more unacted shows than the other two networks: Real People, Speak Up America and Games People Play.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nevertheless Susan who was full of wise intuitions felt that kiss that was never given, and in the remote world of unacted deeds returned it with effusion.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
At the present moment the cry of the unacted is unusually bitter and loud.
From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Edward Fordham Spence
