† unresoundedadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Not resounded or re-echoed.In quot. 1653 the meaning appears to be ‘that has not been caused to resound’ (cf. resound v.1 6); but cf. also re-sound v.2
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1653 W. Basse Pastorals & Other Poems in Poet. Wks. (1893) 240 Wee our flocks in desarts seeme to keep, And sadly touch our unresounded canes.
1755 E. Young Centaur 334 Is it not also far too much for human gratitude to leave unproclaim'd, unresounded, unador'd?
1831 J. Jones Attempts in Verse 253 No sound conveyed her [i.e. to Echo] unresounded dies.
1896 C. B. Shaw Footpr. Music 168 This re-enforcement [of sound] is called resonance. All unresounded tones are weak.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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