ungirt
Americanadjective
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having a girdle loosened or removed.
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slack; relaxed; not taut or pulled together.
ungirt thinking.
Etymology
Origin of ungirt
First recorded in 1250–1300, ungirt is from the Middle English word ungyrt. See un- 1, girt 1
Example Sentences
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She wore a dark, shapeless, ungirt robe covered with patches and stains.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
It was that of a slight, innocent-looking girl in a white satin gown, "ungirt from throat to hem," and holding a sheaf of lilies in her hand.
From The Invader A Novel by Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa)
To him the mistake was the unlit lamp, the ungirt loin—the adventure lost—and, life being what it is, I am not sure that he was not right.
From Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
Alike in life and in art he hated sloth,—the slovenliness of the "ungirt loin" and of the indecisive touch.
From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
In it too were the twin sons of Antiope, daughter of Asopus, Amphion and Zethus, and Thebe still ungirt with towers was lying near, whose foundations they were just then laying in eager haste.
From The Argonautica by Seaton, R. C. (Robert Cooper)
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