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unaˈccomplished, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not accomplished or achieved; uncompleted.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cxiv. 329 Your wysshes and enterprises are more lyke to be vnacomplysshed than atchyued. 1590Swinburne Testaments 133 The same is neither accompted for accomplished,..neither yet for vnaccomplished or deficient. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 455 All th' unaccomplisht works of Natures hand, Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixt. 1736Thomson Liberty iv. 161 Yet dark beneath The suffering feature sullen vengeance lowrs Shame, indignation, unaccomplish'd rage. 1821Shelley Hellas Prol. 51 Assemble, sons of God, To speed or to prevent or to suspend..The unaccomplished destiny. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xci, The hope of unaccomplish'd years Be large and lucid round thy brow.
2. Of persons: Not socially or intellectually accomplished.
a1729Congreve tr. Ovid's Art Love iii, Still unaccomplish'd may the maid be thought, Who gracefully to dance was never taught. 1796F. Burney Camilla II. 357 How many are there, amongst the untaught and unaccomplished, who would think [etc.]. 1826Miss Mitford Our Village Ser. ii. (1863) 274 Unaccomplished they were of course, but they could never have been thought ignorant. 1874Miss Mulock My Mother & I, xiv, Not that she is ill-educated, or unaccomplished. |