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unˈshaven, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. prec. and MDu. ongescaven.]
1. Not shaved.
1382Wyclif 2 Sam. xix. 24 The feet vnwasshen, and the beerd vnshauen. c1450Mirk's Festial 125 Þis man..abode half schauen and half vnschauen tyll þe Monday aftyr. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 430/2 Though beefore those ceremonyes vsed, priestes myghte consecrate vnshauen & vnannoynted,..yet nowe can there none dooe so, syth there is no priest made vnshauen and vnannoynted. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. 269 The indiciduous and unshaven locks of Apollo. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy ii. iv, My uncle began..to dismiss his barber unshaven. 1838Dickens O. Twist xxi, The unwashed, unshaven, squalid, and dirty figures. 1863M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd xxii, His unshaven chin, dark with the blue bristles of his budding beard. 1870Black Kilmeny iii, He went about in a frightfully unshaven and ragged condition.
2. Not smoothed or planed.
a1547Surrey æneid iv. 527 Their oares..from wood they bring, And mastes vnshaue, for hast to take their flight.
Hence unˈshavenness.
1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 62 What avails Sampson's strength, if God give a key to the secret of it which resides in its unshavenness. |