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unreˈclaimed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 5 b.]
1.
†a. Not summoned to return. Obs.—1
c1470Harding Chron. cxxii. ii, He then his lawe and peace alwaye proclaymed..And so held on to London vn⁓reclaymed.
b. Not demanded back.
1748Earl Nugent To Mankind xviii, Wise nature mocks th' wrangling herd; For unreclaim'd, and untransfer'd, Her pow'rs and rights remain.
2. Not reclaimed from error or wrong-doing; not reduced to order or good ways; unreformed.
1602Shakes. Ham. ii. i. 34 The flash and out-breake of a fiery minde, A sauagenes in vnreclaimed bloud of generall assault. 1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. iv. i. 138/1 Their manners vnreclaimed, and barbarisme.., doe witnesse no such ciuilitie sowen, to bee in that plot. 1757W. Wilkie Epigon. ix. 281 Yet, unreclaim'd, from such atrocious deeds, To more and worse your desp'rate rage proceeds. 1827Pollok Course T. ii. 483 In tormenting, pained; Unawed by wrath, by mercy unreclaimed. 1830Mackintosh Progr. Eth. Philos. Wks. 1846 I. 256 They retain whatever was admirable in their unreclaimed state.
3. Untamed; unsubdued.
1618Latham Falconry Contents, Of the Ostringer, and..Goshawke compared with other Fowles of the ayre, as they are vnreclaimed and wilde. 1631Chapman Cæsar & Pompey Plays 1873 III. 193 Antony: [of Cato]. Vnreclaimed man! 1693Dryden Ovid's Met. xiii. Acis 81 Bullocks, unreclaim'd to bear the Yoke.
4. Uncultivated, wild.
1781Cowper Expost. 468 This island, spot of unreclaim'd rude earth. 1832Planting 23 (L.U.K.), [Such] unreclaimed lands..can seldom be prepared as above. 1856Olmsted Slave States 157 Land of this description..in its unreclaimed state.
Hence unreˈclaimedness.
1611Cotgr., Sauvageté, sauagenesse, wildnesse, unreclaimednesse. 1646S. Bolton Arraignm. Err. 28 Unreclaimednesse under any sin whatever will bring in errour. |