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单词 unreconstituted
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unreconstitutedadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˌriːˈkɒnstᵻtjuːtᵻd/, /(ˌ)ʌnˌriːˈkɒnstᵻtʃuːtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənriˈkɑnstəˌt(j)udəd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, reconstituted adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + reconstituted adj. In sense 2 influenced semantically by unreconstructed adj.
1. Not reconstituted.
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1905 Jrnl. Royal Sanitary Inst. 26 128 If we had been meeting some years ago in the older University of London in its unreconstituted form, it might have seemed sacrilegious to speak disrespectfully of the examination system.
1945 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 June 817/2 Lumps escaping crumbling would remain as unreconstituted lumps and mar the smoothness of the product.
1983 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 702 806/1 Nor is it that in its unreconstituted form, the present right of freeholding threatens..the commonweal.
2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 Jan. 2 cups couscous, preferably whole-wheat couscous (..1/3 cup unreconstituted couscous per person).
2. Not converted to a current orthodoxy or lifestyle from one regarded by other people as outdated or extreme. Cf. unreconstructed adj. 1b.
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1958 Catholic World Oct. 84/1 There remain many unreconstituted ‘neutralists’, I fear, who are really unaware of the ba​sis and root meaning of the Word.
1967 Postal Revenue Act 1967: Hearings before Comm. on Post Office & Civil Service (U.S. House of Representatives, 90th Congr.,1st Sess.) 576 You are talking to an unreconstituted Republican, sir, and I believe in standing on our own feet and doing the job.
1996 Daily Tel. 29 Nov. 16/7 It must have been music to the ears of the Labour spin doctors for whom she is an example of unreconstituted Leftyism that they are content to see discredited.
2011 Scotsman (Nexis) 30 Nov. 35 An unreconstituted ‘bloke’ who affects a South London hard-man accent despite being the son of a well to-do former army captain.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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