whiten
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become white.
unwhitened
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a word derived from
whiten.
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Pine-Avon's black velvets and silks, with their white accompaniments, finely set off the exceeding fairness of her neck and shoulders, which, though unwhitened artificially, were without a speck or blemish of the least degree.
From The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
Stars still shone clear in the unwhitened distances.
From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort
The flagged floor, long uncleaned and unwhitened, was strewn with broken pipe-stems, half-burned pipe-lights, gnawed bones and dirty platters.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
HURST, William Randolph, father of the American unwhitened newspapers.
From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Irwin Leslie Gordon
That the sepulchre should be filled with dead men's bones might cause him pain, but that it should be unwhitened would be, to him, a thing far more terrible.
From The Wooden Horse by Sir Hugh Walpole
