| 释义 |
unˈhaunted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Not practised or used. Obs.—1
1533Bellenden Livy iii. (S.T.S.) I. 298 Nocht knawand..quhy þe thing (þat was sa mony ȝeris afore vnhantit and out of consuetude) was brocht agane in vse.
2. Not frequented; lonely, solitary.
1568–9Act 11 Eliz. in Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 369 Enormities that have followed of the disordered trade of aliens to creekes and unhaunted portes. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 349 b, Nor were they sojourning then in y⊇ Cities, or Townes. But coucht close..in unhaunted woodes and fennes. 1617Campion Wks. (1909) 181 We both will sit in some vnhaunted shade. 1659W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida iv. 94 Like beauteous flowers, which vainly waste the scent Of odors in unhanted desarts.
3. Not haunted by (or of) something.
1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 162 [They] can lay their heads on their pillows unhaunted by the apprehension of seeing him no more. 1819Keats Indolence ii, Unhaunted quite of all but—nothingness. 1866Howells Venet. Life ii. 21 Unhaunted by any pang for the decay that afterwards saddened me.., I glided on.
Hence unˈhauntedness.
1611Florio, Infrequenza, vnhauntednesse. |