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unˈsunned, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not penetrated or reached by sunlight; not exposed or accessible to the sun.
1607Tourneur Rev. Trag. iii. F 1, [I] did wish his impudent grace To meete her here in this vn-sunned-lodge. 1634Milton Comus 398 The unsun'd heaps Of Misers treasure. 1652Benlowes Theoph. x. lxxvi, Why start'st? Unlock thy unsunn'd hoard. 1759Mason Caractacus 22 The unsunn'd silver of the mine. 1797Coleridge Limetree Bower 14 That branchless ash, Unsunn'd and damp. 1806R. Mant Poems, Country Gent. i. 32 Where..horror shaggs the unsunn'd precipice. 1860F. Nightingale Nursing ix. 49 The unsunned sides of narrow streets. 1885J. Ingelow Sleep of Sigismund xxxviii, With name unsaid and fame unsunned He walks that was King Sigismund.
b. fig. Not made patent or public.
1809–14Wordsw. Excurs. vii. 281 With his cheerful throng Of open projects, and his inward hoard Of unsunned griefs. 1821J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1857) I. 347 He has promised to communicate to our Society some very curious and unsunned letters of Lord Dacre's. 1862Athenæum 30 Aug. 278 The unsunned historical treasures in the possession of the London Corporation.
2. Not touched or affected by the light or heat of the sun. Also fig.
1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. v. 13, I thought her As Chaste, as vn-Sunn'd Snow. 1795Southey Vis. Maid of Orleans i. 311 As white as unsunn'd snow, Or as the spotless lily of the vale. 1820Ellen Fitzarthur 54 Crystal drops of unsunned dew. 1843F. E. Paget Warden of Berkingholt 119 The unsunned purity..of the Master of Berkingholt Union.
b. Not coloured or tanned by the sun.
1821Craig Lect. Drawing, etc. vi. 344 The dark, yet clear, complexion of the Italians, which would ill suit on unsunned English faces. 1835Willis Pencillings II. xlix. 80 They venture to drop their jealous veils and ramble about in their unsunned beauty. 1882Century Mag. XXV. 103 A lady..[with] pure, unsunned complexion.
fig.1830Tennyson Confess. Sensit. Mind 140 In my morn of youth, The unsunn'd freshness of my strength.
3. Not lighted up by the sun. Also fig.
1840Lady C. Bury Hist. of Flirt xvi, Her still countenance unsunned by a smile. a1864Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1879) I. 36 All the near landscape lay unsunned. 1874Farrar Christ II. lix. 350 The unsunned outer darkness of miserable self-condemnation. |