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单词 unfigurative
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unfigurativeadj.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈfigurative.
(un- prefix1 1.)
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unfigured1577
unmetaphorical1641
unrhetorical1680
literal1690
unfigurative1780
uncaricatured1880
non-metaphorical1941
1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) x. §4 The sense it bears on these occasions may be styled its literal or unfigurative sense.
1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xxi. 287 St. Peter's unfigurative Epistle.
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