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unfaced

American  
[uhn-feyst] / ʌnˈfeɪst /

adjective

Crystallography.
  1. without crystal faces.


Etymology

Origin of unfaced

First recorded in 1930–35; un- 1 + faced

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Until Europe itself and the remainder of the world faced that unfaced question, no plan for Germany could be either intelligent or complete.

From Time Magazine Archive

These, after all, were the superficialities of the situation; its deeper aspects were, Imogen felt, as yet unfaced.

From A Fountain Sealed by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Shaming the Prince, whose spirit chafed to leave A gage unfaced; but when Vidarbha's gem, The Princess, heard that challenge, Nala rose: "Yea, Pushkara, I will play!" fiercely he said; And to the game addressed.

From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Sir Edwin Arnold

It was not the finished brick of to-day but rough and unfaced.

From Remodeled Farmhouses by Mary H. Northend

A smoothly moving, white on white, unfaced ghost of whiteness within, a part of, the blazing radionic light.

From Zero Data by Charles Saphro

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