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
In this ungirt hour there imported himself into our life a youngish-looking middle-aged man of the name of Shend, with a blurred face and deprecating eyes.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard
Returning care Had roused th' industrious hag, with footstep bare, And loins ungirt, the sleeping fire to light; And lovers thrill'd that season of despight, Which wont renew their tears, and wake despair.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
Thereon Asbiorn ungirt his sword and gave it to me solemnly.
From A Sea Queen's Sailing by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
And neither poet would have found it difficult to include the worst vices under the head of torpor or ‘the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.’
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
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