unvaccinatedadj.n.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈvaksᵻneɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈvæksəˌneɪdᵻd/ A. adj.
That has not undergone vaccination (originally against smallpox, later also against other diseases).
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uninoculated1775
unvaccinated1813
unjabbed1976
unvaxxed2009
1813 C. Cuthbertson Adelaide III. vii. 127 Lady Marian and Mrs. Gayville need no longer apprehend danger to their unvaccinated bantlings from your presence.
1871 Daily News 28 Jan. We need..somebody to look after unvaccinated children.
1913 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 28 254 Careful records should be obtained of each person vaccinated and of the incidence of meningitis in the unvaccinated and the unvaccinated population of each community.
1986 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Oct. 22/5 A Redbank Plains veterinarian said parvo virus was spread by contact—usually between unvaccinated dogs.
2021 Times of Israel (Nexis) 22 Aug. The vast majority of seriously ill COVID-19 patients at Petah Tikva's Beilinson Medical Center are unvaccinated.
B. n.
With the and plural agreement. Unvaccinated individuals as a class.
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1814 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 10 122 But the small-pox, on this occasion, soon found its way among the unvaccinated.
1883 Scotsman 25 June 7/7 In this way nearly half..of the unvaccinated die.
1955 Time 28 Nov. 62/1 Chicago was unofficially reported to have had only two cases of paralytic polio per 100,000 among the vaccinated, as compared with 32 among the unvaccinated.
2021 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 19 July a1 Fully vaccinated people are extraordinarily protected from severe disease, hospitalization and death from COVID-19, and experts across the nation say the worst effects of this surge are falling almost all on the unvaccinated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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