单词 | unretracted |
释义 | unretractedadj. Not retracted (retracted adj.2); unrevoked. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [adjective] > asseverated, asserted, affirmed, or positively stated > not retracted, disavowed, or withdrawn unretracted1573 unwithdrawn1802 1573 T. Cartwright Replye to Answere Whitgifte 32 Examples of all the Apostles,..vncontrolled and vnretracted, eyther by any the primitiue and purer churches, or by any rule of the scripture, I thynke ought to stande. 1604 G. Powel Consideration Papists Reasons for Toleration of Poperie 86 They dyed in the vnretracted faith they professed in their bookes. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 65 Malevolence shewn..in a single Outrage unretracted. 1739 Hist. Wks. Learned I. 73 Content to leave the Calumnies of Fatalism and Spinozism unretracted. 1799 Minutes Court Martial A. Armstrong 8 The unpleasant and unretracted language of a member of the House of Commons. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. iv. 502 The monkish Latin satire maintained its unretracted protest against the Church. 1889 T. Morse Benjamin Franklin vi. 168 If England should not renounce her right, the colonies would always remain uneasy beneath the unretracted assertion of it. 1943 Mind 52 152 Berkeley's doctrine of cause..remained unretracted, and unchanged. 2009 Observer (Nexis) 18 Oct. (Sports Mag.) 51 A 1967 resignation letter sat in Robinson's filing cabinet, unretracted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1573 |
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