seized
adjective
taken hold, possession, or control of, as by force or legal authority; confiscated, captured, or appropriated.
unseized
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a word derived from
seized.
Example Sentences
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Familiar, still unseized, the forest sprangAn old-world echo, like no mortal thing.The hunter’s horn might wind a jocund ring,But held in ear it had a chilly clang.
From A Reading of Life, Other Poems by George Meredith
One of the commissioners told me the real hitch was the terms on which the Dominion should assume the Crown Colony's small public debt; so the chance passed unseized.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
The other member, by whose felt but unseized identity he had been haunted, was the unconsciously insolent form of guaranteed happiness he had just been engaged with.
From The Finer Grain by Henry James
Fighting is a soldier's profession, and the peculiar opportunities afforded by a siege, for the acquirement of fame and distinction, were too rare to be let pass unseized.
From The Siege of Kimberley by T. Phelan
I would not say that Mr. Sothern's Hamlet is the only Hamlet, for there are still, no doubt, "points in Hamlet's soul unseized by the Germans yet."
From Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory by Arthur Symons
