单词 | unirked |
释义 | unirkedadv.adj. Scottish. Untiringly. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. xi. 35 The Eneadanis all of his menȝe Ithandly and onyrkyt luiffit haue I. B. adj. ΚΠ 1513 [see sense A.]. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iv. xiv. 99 Horsmen..fresche and vnirkit of lauboure. 2. Not irritated, not annoyed; untroubled (by something). ΚΠ 1902 M. L. Woods Princess of Hanover iv. i. 118 In privacy, unirked by scandalous tongues And prying eyes. 1930 E. N. Vallandigham in L. F. Post Prophet of San Francisco p. xii Henry George..surveyed the world from his watch-tower for a dozen or a score of years, unirked and unhurried. 1949 H. A. Wright Story Western Mass. I. xix. 185 This little band of pioneers..was for years seemingly unirked by the lack of a community meeting place. 1974 Cross & Flag May 36/2 Yours was a noble, sensual culture, unirked by the prickings of a social conscience or by any sentimental questions about human equality. 1999 Times 31 Mar. 44/7 Unirked by media criticism, he will come in on his favourite Messianic wave. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.adj.1513 |
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