unbreathed

American  

[uhn-breethd] / ʌnˈbriðd /

adjective

1. not breathed.

   unbreathed air.

2. not disclosed; uncommunicated, as a secret.

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Etymology

Origin of unbreathed

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

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

To-day, when he went forth for his solitary stroll by the edge of the canal, the air, unbreathed and dewy as it was, brought him as usual a sense of undimmed delight.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

From scenes of art which chase That thought away, turn, and with watchful eyes Feed it ’mid Nature’s old felicities, Rocks, rivers, and smooth lakes more clear than glass Untouched, unbreathed upon.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

There is also the formless, unbreathed word of mood and dream and passion.

From Test Pilot by Collins, Jimmy

For though a slave, or a man living under a servile political system, may develop many fine qualities of character: yet such virtues will, in Milton's words, be but 'fugitive and cloistered', 'unexercised and unbreathed'.

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney