单词 | unknelled |
释义 | unknelledadj. Now rare. Not commemorated by the ringing of a death knell; unmourned. Chiefly figurative in later use.In quot. 1725 a misreading of unaneled: see quot. 1604 at unaneled adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [adjective] > for whom or which knell not sounded unknelled1725 1725 in G. Sewell Wks. Shakespear VII. Gloss. p. lvii/2 Unknell'd, without the Passing-Bell going for a dying Man. a1770 T. Chatterton Poems (1777) 265 And sowles unknelled hover'd oer the bloude. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV clxxix. 92 Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. 1877 Star (St. Peter Port, Guernsey) 26 June The unknelled and unshrouded dead. 1941 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 8 Sept. 6/1 His unsung sacrifices and unknelled agonies. 1968 Herald Jrnl. (Logan, Utah) 29 Aug. 3/1 Were this not a political year, each of these works would deserve to pass unread, untolled, unknelled into the rightful oblivion reserved for books of this nature. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1725 |
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