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unˈpolished, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 5 b.]
1. Not made smooth or bright by polishing.
1382Wyclif Deut. xxvii. 6 An auter..of stonus vnfourmed and vnpolishid. c1475Cath. Angl. 293/1 (A.), Vn Pulysched.., jmpolitus. 1552Huloet, Vnpollished, and not perfitly wrought, raudus. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xvii. §13 The better sort of Rules haue beene not vnfitly compared to glasses of steele vnpullished. 1662J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 122 Another thin piece of jasper stone, unpollished. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 166 ⁋3 Fortitude, and probity,..are cast aside like unpolished gems. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 5 If the tool be unpolished. 1874J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age vi. 73 Rough, un⁓polished angular fragments that have tumbled..from cliffs.
transf.1635Swan Spec. M. iii. §2 (1643) 48 Both of them [sc. the heavens] remained as it were unpolished or unfinished untill the fourth day.
2. Inelegant or rude in respect of style, language, etc.; not carefully finished.
c1489Skelton Death Earl Northumbld. 127 My wordes vnpullysht be, nakide and playne. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 15 The thing which heer I report in vnpolisht proez. 1585Daniel Paulus Iouius Pref., Wks. (Grosart) IV. 4 In like maner..haue I aduentured to place these my vnpolished labors on the Piller of your worthines. 1635in Verney Mem. (1907) I. 99 Not daring to present any unpolished lines to such a judicious reader. 1673Phil. Trans. VIII. 5178 Of which many pregnant Instances..are registred in these un-polish't Volumes. a1704T. Brown Satire Ancients Wks. 1720 I. 26 To hear..Horace [called] an Author un⁓polished, languid, and without force. 1781Harris Philol. Enq. iii. xi. 468 At a time when the Languages of England and France were barbarous and unpolished. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. i. v. §16 Budæus..is hard and unpolished. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xxii, It cannot be Chrysippus; the Greek is too modern, and too unpolished.
3. Left rude or imperfect.
1596Edward III, i. i. 76 His lame vnpolisht shifts are come to light. 1647Clarendon Contempl. Ps. Tracts (1727) 527 To reduce our unpolished speculations and conceptions into a prompt and ready practice.
4. Not refined in manners or ways of living; marked or characterized by lack of culture.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 271 The Commons, rude vnpolisht Hindes. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §4 The spirit of Craft and Subtilty in some, and the Unpolished Integrity of others. 1672Dryden Def. Epilogue ⁋28 They were unlucky to have been bred in an unpolished age. 1703J. Savage Lett. Antients xxxvii. 99, I have had an unpolish'd Education..in Barbarous Nations. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. ix. (1788) I. 277 The unpolished wives of the barbarians. c1815Jane Austen Persuasion ix, Their parents' inferior, retired, and unpolished way of living. 1853Lynch Self-Improv. v. 112 An unpolished man need not be an ill⁓mannered one.
Hence unˈpolishedness.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. vii. §279 That roughness and unpolishedness of his nature. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox v. 90 Those hearts, which may bee said to bee of Iron for their rude unpolishedness. |