borrow
verb (used with object)
to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent.
unborrowed
-
a word derived from
borrow.
Example Sentences
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And really what regulatory capital means is essentially money that's unborrowed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2015
The unborrowed antiquity of a belief in a divine being, creative and sometimes moral, in North America, is thus demonstrated.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Lang, Andrew
What Mr. Mann says concerning the unborrowed character of Andaman beliefs applies, of course, to the yet more remote and inaccessible natives of Australia.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
Wert thou not formed to herald in the day, And clothe a world in thy unborrowed light?
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
But however little the early dramatists of Rome may have to boast of originality or invention, they are amply entitled to claim an unborrowed praise for the genuine purity of their native style and language.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
