unsunkadj.
(un- prefix1 2b.)
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the world > the earth > land > [adjective] > not submerged
dryc1175
unsunka1300
the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective]
safec1325
unharmed1340
safe and soona1393
sicker and safea1398
halea1400
lotlessa1400
harmless1418
unsunkc1586
hunk1856
hunky1861
society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [adjective] > sinking > sunk > not
unsunk1611
society > morality > virtue > [adjective] > not degenerate
undepraved1647
unsunka1687
undegenerate1743
undegenerated1794
undissipated1830
a1300 Cursor Mundi 2847 Es noþer leued, ne tre, ne gress, Ne nathing of þat land vn-sonken [v.rr. vn-sunkyn, vnsunke].
c1586 Countess of Pembroke Psalmes lxix. vi Keepe me safe unsunck, unmyred.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 573/1 Not halfe of their shippes escaped vntaken or vnsuncke.
a1687 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 77 The Angels and the Souls of Men unsunk into generation.
a1687 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 77 All Souls as they descend είς γένεσιν.]
c1740 A. Hill To Author of ‘Pamela’ 28 What..Though taste like thine each void of time can fill, Unsunk by spleen.
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI xcix. 113 The Sinking Fund's unfathomable sea..leaves The debt unsunk, yet sinks all it receives.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. iv. 56 Nimble old man, who..in the worst confusion will emerge, cork-like, unsunk.
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