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
She would merely reappear above his horizon among other luminaries, and shine with her own pure, unborrowed light.
From A Young Girl's Wooing by Edward Payson Roe
Whatever part suggestion and imitation may have played in producing them in men and women in excited assemblies, they have at any rate been in countless individual instances an original and unborrowed experience.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
You will say—I have heard you say—that Heidelberg wants no beauty unborrowed of the eye; but if history had not clothed it in recollections, fancy must have invested it in its own dreams.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
Coleridge deliberately placed Wordsworth "nearest of all modern writers to Shakespeare and Milton, yet in a kind perfectly unborrowed and his own."
From Studies in Literature by John Morley
