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unbreathed

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[uhn-breethd] / ʌnˈbriðd /

adjective

  1. not breathed.

    unbreathed air.

  2. not disclosed; uncommunicated, as a secret.


Etymology

Origin of unbreathed

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

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

There's a woe untold, there's a pang unbreathed     In your bosom, my brothers three!

From Poems by Hugo, Victor

There is every possible degree of anguish in the married life, from the unbreathed unrest of the thinly clouded soul to the terrible grief that breaks out in loud denunciations and open and disgusting conflict.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by Weaver, George Sumner

Mr Kipling's heroes are frail enough to feel some of this very natural indignation when unbreathed politicians lecture them in the heat of their Indian day.

From Rudyard Kipling by Palmer, John

Emerson was Sir Galahad, blind to all but the Holy Grail, his armour spotless-white, his virtue cloistered and unbreathed, his race won without the dust and heat.

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir

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