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unˈhewn, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. MDu. on-, MHG. ungehouwen, ON. úhǫgginn (MDa. u-, Sw. ohuggen).]
1. Not hacked or cut with weapons.
a1400–50Alexander 1945 Besely we shapid Out of þe handis vn-hewyn of oure hatill fais.
2. Not hewn or cut into shape; not fashioned or shaped by hewing.
1382Wyclif Josh. viii. 31 (MS. Douce 369), An auter of stones vnhewen þe whiche eiren haþ not touchid. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iv. xlv. 359 A Stone unhewn has been set up for Neptune. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xviii, The walls, of unhewn marble, were high and strengthened by bastions. 1804Ann. Rev. II. 191 An unhewn log of wood..decorated with red feathers. 1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 309 This fringe of unhewn timber that lined the beach. 1887Bowen æneid iii. 688 Pantagia's harbour, a gorge in the unhewn stone.
b. fig. Unpolished, rough, rugged.
1659Pell Impr. Sea 44 Ignorant, knotty, illiterate, and unhewn Sailors. 1687Montague & Prior Hind & P. Transv. Wks. 1907 II. 18, I hate such a rough unhewen Fellow as Milton. 1703S. Centlivre Beau's Duel iv. i, I hope the world will distinguish the difference between a rough, unhewn soldier, and a polish'd Gentleman. 1850Marsden Early Purit. iii. 71 Cartwright is described as unhewn and awkward. |