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unˈhanged, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. Sw. ohängd.]
Not (yet) executed by hanging. (Cf. unhung ppl. a. 2.)
c1440York Myst. xxxii. 186 Þou on-hanged harlott, hark what I saie. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. ccxviii. [ccxiv.] 674 It is pytie these vnthriftes be vnhanged or drowned, for tellyng of suche lies. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 144 There liues not three good men vnhang'd in England. 1786Burns Twa Dogs 228 They..Pore owre the devil's pictur'd beuks;..An' cheat like ony unhanged blackguard. 1821Scott Kenilw. v, Some evil fortune dogs the heels of that unhanged rogue Lambourne. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair li, We may abuse a man as much as we like, and call him the greatest rascal unhanged—but do we wish to hang him therefore? 1899T. M. Ellis Cat's-eye Rings 78 Through this unhanged fiend..my mother was one day..murdered.
transf.1834Tait's Mag. I. 54/1 The advent of the Whigs to power..has been a decided godsend to the trading advocates of unhanged abuses. |