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▪ I. unˈstung, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8 b.]
Not stung.
1615Goddard Neaste of Waspes F iij, Why howe nowe Waspes, are you returnd agen? I knowe vnstung remaines a worlde of men And therefore once more out. 1807Crabbe Birth of Flattery 147 Such was the fiend, and so secure of prey, That only Misery pass'd unstung away. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xx. II. 203 Some of them flew after me; I escaped however unstung. 1864‘Annie Thomas’ D. Donne III. 135 He knew too that the Bishop knew it also, and was unstung by the knowledge.
▪ II. unˈstung, ppl. a.2
[f. unsting v.]
Having the sting removed; deprived of the sting.
1671J. Janeway (title), Death Unstung; A Sermon [on Rev. xiv. 13] at the funeral of T. Mowsley. 1687Renwick Serm., etc. (1776) 333 To the believing soul death is unstung. |