unwinnowed
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a word derived from
winnow.
winnowverb (used with object)to free (grain) from the lighter particles of chaff, dirt, etc., especially by throwing it into the air and allowing the wind or a forced current of air to blow away impurities.
Example Sentences
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She believes the selected few are better than the unwinnowed many as rulers.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
He was painfully conscious now that opinions he had thought to be his own were only unwinnowed sheaves of thought gleaned in the field of his reading.
From The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
It said, and Darkness, quelled, Shrunk noiseless backward in her monstrous womb Through vasts unwinnowed by the wings of eld!
From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse