unrisen
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a word derived from
rise.
riseverb (used without object)to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position.
Example Sentences
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They cited lost tennis matches, unrisen soufflés and the inability to play a musical instrument.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2018
In 1660 Rembrandt painted Hendrickje, her skin the colour of unrisen dough, dark eyes sunken into puffed-out cheeks.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2014
By contrast, she barely accords humanity to the Catonsville jurors, "whose pale and flabby faces, in the afternoon light, seemed made of unrisen dough."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Unrizzest, applied to dough or bread; heavy, most unrisen, or most incapable of rising.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell
I am of time That counteth no dawn; Thy æons yet climb To skies I have won, Seeking for aye an unrisen sun!
From Path Flower and Other Verses by Olive Tilford Dargan