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unˈcelebrated, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not observed with festivities or in some formal manner; not specially honoured or extolled.
1660Milton Free Commw. Wks. 1851 V. 425 Nor was..our Victory..unprais'd or uncelebrated in a written Monument. 1667― P.L. vii. 253 Thus was the first Day Eev'n and Morn: Nor past uncelebrated, nor unsung By the Celestial Quires. 1736Pope Let. to Swift 30 Dec., I have seen a royal birth-day uncelebrated but by one vile Ode, and one hired bonfire. 1781A. Grant Lett. fr. Mount. (1813) II. xiv. 75 The freedom, ease, and gaiety, which..has not passed uncelebrated or unsung. a1843Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. Ser. ii. (1849) 138 Christmas uncelebrated there.
2. Not famed or renowned.
1740Cibber Apol. (1756) II. 4 There came over from Dublin Theatre two uncelebrated actors to pick up a few pence among us. 1782V. Knox Ess. lxvi. I. 288 Such is that uncelebrated virtue, common and moral honesty. 1840Willis Loiterings Trav. III. 38 This out-of-door's world, unvisited and uncelebrated. |