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unˈspent, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
1. Not expended; not employed or used.
1466Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 326 He ad of myn onspente in is and, vj.s. viij.d. 1483in Somerset Med. Wills (1901) 239 As moch as than shal..remayne unspent of the seid xij torches. 1550Crowley Last Trump 269 If ought remayne vnspent Upon thyne owne necessity. 1632Lithgow Trav. vii. 313 The French men had only left unspent..three⁓score and nine Chickens of Gold. 1674Hobbes Odyssey (ed. 2) 9 We had Wine enough as yet unspent. 1745in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 110 A proportionable part of what remains unspent. 1895Westm. Gaz. 24 May 5/2 The revolver..contained one spent and five unspent cartridges. 1899Parlt. Debates LXVII. 554/2 What [he]..pressed was the use of the unspent balance for that purpose.
2. Unexhausted; not used up.
c1611Chapman Iliad xiv. 344 For fervour of his unspent strength. 1663Dryden Ep. to Charleton 36 Whose Fame..Flies like the nimble journeys of the Light; And is, like that, unspent too in its flight. 1732Pope Ess. Man i. 274 All are but parts of one stupendous whole,..That..extends thro' all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent. 1770Glover Leonidas (ed. 5) xii. 355 He impell'd His spear. The point with violence unspent..reach'd the Persian's throat. 1799Cowper Castaway 39 So long he, with unspent pow'r, His destiny repell'd. 1857Emerson Poems, ‘Give all to Love’ ii, High and more high It dives into noon, With wing unspent. |