unfaced

American  

[uhn-feyst] / ʌnˈfeɪst /

adjective

Crystallography.

1. without crystal faces.

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Etymology

Origin of unfaced

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

Example Sentences

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

Now, constrained neither by the depression spawned of unfaced problems or subdued emotions, the world appeared as it should; I had drawn out all of the hob-goblins that my mind repressed, and scourged them.

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann

The high ideals which, while unfaced with any great issue, she had cherished with unconscious hypocrisy failed her in the stress of her need.

From The Bigamist by Young, F.E. Mills

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

From Zero Data by Saphro, Charles

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

From A Fountain Sealed by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas