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▪ I. † unˈsounded, ppl. a.1 Obs.—1
[un-1 8: cf. sound v.3]
Not healed.
1420–2Lydg. Thebes ii. 2438 Wherto shuld I write..of the sorowe that Polymytes Mad in hym-silf to sen hym so forwounded, His greuous hurtes, his soorys, ek vnsounded.
▪ II. unˈsounded, ppl. a.2
Also 6 unsounde.
[un-1 8.]
Not sounded, uttered, or pronounced; not made to sound.
1530Palsgr. Introd. 16 No vowell is left unsounded..in a frenche worde. c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 899 If the next worde..be a consonant, than shall the said s remayne unsounde. 1807J. Barlow Columb. v. 766 Every honest Muse with horror flings The name unsounded from her sacred strings. 1865Trans. Philol. Soc. 15 The unsounded syllable of the third person plural of the French verb. 1884H. R. Haweis Musical Life 119, I keep my Strad. in a cabinet behind glass. There he rests unsounded and unstrung.
▪ III. unˈsounded, ppl. a.3
[un-1 8.]
1. Not sounded or plummeted; unfathomed.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. iii. ii. 81 Orpheus Lute,..Whose golden touch could..Make Tygers tame, and huge Leuiathans Forsake vnsounded deepes, to dance on Sands. 1616W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. i. 130 The tyde..whereon his carre should sweepe, Deckt with the riches of th' unsounded deepe. 1651T. Stanley Poems, Venus Vigils 77 Piercing through the unsounded sea. 1861L. L. Noble Icebergs 243 Where with the surf around its shoulders..it stood far up from the unsounded valleys of ocean.
b. fig. or in fig. contexts.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. i. 57 Glouster is a man Vnsounded yet, and full of deepe deceit. 1607Chapman Bussy D'Ambois iii. F i, O the vnsounded Sea of womens bloods, That when tis calmest, is most dangerous. 1634Jackson Creed vii. xix. §6, I would request every ingenuous sober reader..not adventure to saile in a narrow..and unsounded sea only with the help of a generall carde. a1750A. Hill The Muse to the Writer xxxiii, This is a subject, that, outstretching thought, Through depths unsounded, wit's long plummet draws. 1826Mrs. Hemans Forest Sanctuary lxxi, Th' unsounded gulfs of human woe! 1876Swinburne Erechtheus 939 Mine unknown children of unsounded years. 1878Emerson in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 409 To good men, as we call good men, this doctrine of Trust is an unsounded secret.
2. Unprobed, unexamined.
c1620Robinson Mary Magd. 534 Vaine woman!..shall thy heart vnsounded, still remaine vnsound? |