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unˈspoken, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b, 8 c, 5 d. Cf. (M)Du. ongesproken, MLG. ungesproken, MHG. ungesprochen.]
1. Not spoken of. † Also with to.
1375Barbour Bruce xv. 268 Till king Robert will we gang, That we haf left vnspokyn of lang. c1530L. Cox Rheth. (1899) 62, I can nat let passe his diuine wysdome vnspoken of. 1588Kyd Househ. Philos. Wks. (1901) 284 Albeit somethings vnspoken of might be reuiued and produced. 1607S. Collins Serm. (1608) 35, I am faine to passe by some things of moment, vnspoken-to here. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 147 The [Persian] women as vnseene may passe vnspoken of.
2. Not spoken, unsaid, unuttered; not expressed in speech.
c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xiv. 373 The oon premisse is expressid.., and the other premysse is stille vnspokun for schortnes. 1461Paston Lett. II. 76 Desyreng the said schref if ony thyng of the Kyngs comaunded were be hynd unspoken by hym self that [etc.]. 1548W. Patten Exped. Scotl. L v, Causes..that..ar better vnspoken then vttred. 1577Grange Golden Aphrod. K iij, No doubte but I.I. wished his wordes vnspoken. 1611Shakes. Cymb. v. v. 139 Thou'lt torture me to leave vnspoken, that Which to be spoke, wou'd torture thee. 1640Quarles Enchyrid. iii. xxxii, A word unspoken is like the Sword in thy Scabberd, thine. 1773Goldsm. 1st Epil. to ‘Stoops to Conq.’, And that our friendship may remain unbroken, What if we leave the Epilogue unspoken? 1818Coleridge in Encycl. Metrop. I. Introd. 13 The unspoken alphabet of nature. 1862Shirley (J. Skelton) Nugæ Crit. v. 210 Rigorous edicts..which punished the unspoken thought as well as the visible act.
3. Not spoken to; unaddressed.
1616Hieron Wks. II. 23, I shall also teach that which shall be for the best behoofe of euery one in this assembly, that so none may goe away vnspoken to. 1721Kelly Scot. Prov. 249 When People out of Bashfulness leave..a Person unspoken to. 1855Trollope Warden vi, She had sat the whole evening through.., not speaking, and unspoken to.
4. Sc. Without having spoken. rare—1.
1597in Spalding Cl. Misc. (1841) I. 91 Jonet Wischert..commandit..Katherine Ewyn to ryss airlie befoir the sone, on betechit hir self to God, and on spokin.
b. (See quot.)
1825Jamieson, Unspoken water, water..brought..to the house of a sick person, without the bearer's speaking either in going or returning. |