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unstemmed

  • a word derived from stemmed.
    stemmed
    adjective
    having a stem or a specified kind of stem (often used in combination).

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But more than anything, it is Falstaff’s relish for language — his unstemmed and unstemmable gift for elaborate prevarication, for colorful excoriation, for creative ingratiation — that Mr. Sher brings to buoyant life.

From New York Times Dec. 22, 2014

The fire was extinguished almost as rapidly as it began, but the torrent of Mrs. Clancy's eloquence was still unstemmed.

From The Deserter by Charles King

Quick over Madison's face surged the red in an unstemmed tide—volcanic within him his love that he knew now possessed his very soul, jealousy that, blinding, robbed him of his senses, roused him to frenzy.

From The Miracle Man by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

Drawing Willits from the room her questions burst forth in their unstemmed torrent.

From Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

The billows thus unstemmed, 'twas Caesar's will To hew the stately forests and with trees Enchained to form a rampart.

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan