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unˈsung, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. MHG. and G. ungesungen, Sw. osjungen.]
1. Not sung; not uttered by singing.
1422–61in Cal. Proc. in Chanc. Q. Eliz. (1827) I. Introd. 20 It wer better bell unrogne at þe sauntes tyme þan þe messe unsogne. 1539Abst. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1897) IV. 118 Geif it faillies to be left on-sung thre nychtis togidder. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. i. 8 Drawne by time..To sing those layes as yet unsung of any. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iii. v, Thy Epic, unsung in words, is written in huge characters on the face of this Planet. 1860Faber Bethlehem 100 Numberless unlanguaged and unsung Magnificats. 1889Stevenson South Seas iii. vi. (1900) 265 [They] gave up the unsung remainder of their ballet.
2. Not celebrated in or by song.
1667Milton P.L. vii. 253 Thus was the first Day..: Nor past uncelebrated, nor unsung By the Celestial Quires. 1697Dryden æneis vii. 1014 Nor Œbalus, shalt thou be left unsung. 1701Addison Let. from Italy 14 Here..not a mountain rears its head unsung. 1743Young Nt. Th. iv. 533 Why doubt we, then, the glorious truth to sing, Tho' yet unsung, as deem'd, perhaps, too bold? 1805[see unhonoured]. 1828Carlyle Misc. (1840) I. 343 A thousand battle-fields remain unsung. 1875F. I. Scudamore Day-Dreams 10 It is one of the unsung beauties of the earth.
▸ unsung hero n. a person (esp. a man) whose heroism or achievements are unacknowledged or little-known; also in extended use.
1860Merry's Museum & Parley's Mag. Jan. 66/1 And many an *unsung hero Now as in days of yore, Enacts his part in silence Upon some desert shore. 1899Living Age 13 May 443 Our leucocytes are the true ‘unsung heroes’ of history. 1975P. Kronhausen & E. Kronhausen Sex People i. 1 This book is about the unsung heroes and heroines of the ‘sexual revolution’ of our time. 1990N.Y. Woman Oct. 20/2 The Maryknoll sisters and..those sisters of other religious congregations, so many of them unsung heroes.
▸ unsung heroine n. a woman whose heroism or achievements are unacknowledged or little-known.
1897Washington Post 7 Mar. 14/3 (headline) An *unsung heroine. Little California girl who gave her life for her brother. 2003J. S. Lewis Sacred to Female Patriotism p. vii, Office staff are always the unsung heroines of academic departments. |