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 whole song possessed the nameless charm peculiar to unborrowed thought, but four continually-recurring lines shone out from the rest like the blaze of the hearth whose joys they celebrated.
From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I believe it is; for this Sydney or Dobell speaks with a voice of his own, unborrowed, unmimicked.
From Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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 Andrew Lang
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
