current
adjective
passing in time; belonging to the time actually passing.
uncurrent
-
a word derived from
current.
Example Sentences
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Throne and Crown await Thee—Throne and Crown Without thy Impress but uncurrent Gold, Not to be stamp’d by one not worthy Them; Behold!
From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edward FitzGerald
Forward lads and "fast" people are scarce and uncurrent here.
From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley
And he was a man of another age, with obsolete opinions, which he produced like the unconscious bearer of uncurrent coin.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
Pray God, your voice, like a piece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the ring.—Masters, you are all welcome.
From Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Often good turns Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay; But were my worth, as is my conscience, firm, You should find better dealing.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
