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unˈowned, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not possessed as property; destitute of an owner or possessor.
1611Cotgr., Vuayves,..things which bee left, abandoned, escheated, or vnowned. 1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 57 The Law declareth things unowned to be his that first comes to the enjoying of them. 1681O. Heywood Diaries, etc. (1881) II. 229 They would cry it at the crosse with some other unowned goods. 1829Southey Sir T. More I. 94 Like the dogs at Lisbon and Constantinople, unowned, unbroken to any useful purpose. 1884Pall Mall G. 12 Jan. 5/1 Unowned wires, he admitted, must be dealt with.
transf.1634Milton Comus 407 Lest som ill greeting touch attempt the person Of our unowned sister [= 350 our lost sister].
2. Unacknowledged; unadmitted.
1715Gay Epist. to Earl of Burlington 40 Here unown'd infants find their daily food; For should the maiden mother nurse her son, 'Twould spoil her match. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. xliv. 321, I know not my own heart, if I have any of that latent or unowned inclination. 1793W. Roberts Looker-on No. 48 (1794) II. 205 An action unowned by the delicacy of its real author. 1865C. M. Yonge Dove in Eagle's Nest vii, The poor little unowned bride had more to undergo than her imagination had conceived. 1897Pullen-Burry Blotted Out 65 [Her] unowned child..had blossomed into one of the most famous actresses of the day. |