unrent
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unrent
Example Sentences
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UNRENT: A polite term for “evict.”
From Washington Post
Unrent, un-rent′, adj. not rent.
From Project Gutenberg
Thus ever may that flag unrent At peak and staff be borne, Nor e'er from mast or battlement By traitor hands be torn.
From Project Gutenberg
In fact, our lad was, for the first time in his life, viewing a game of baseball through his newly discovered loophole of experience, and finding it a vastly different affair from the same scene shrouded by an unrent veil of ignorance.
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New bodies for these feeble forms, New life from e’en the moldering tomb, New skies unrent by raging storms, New beauty, new unfading bloom, New scenes the eternal era to begin, Of peace for war, of righteousness for sin.
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