unbreathed

American  

[uhn-breethd] / ʌnˈbriðd /

adjective

1. not breathed: breathe.

   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

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

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

Sometimes a wilder track led Stair and Louis unbreathed across an open moor, the path being too narrow to ride abreast, when it was the mare's privilege to lead.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Then Khoda Dad Khan, eloquent and unbreathed, for he had taken no part in the fight, rose to improve the occasion.

From Life's Handicap by Kipling, Rudyard