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unˈworn, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b, c.]
1. Not impaired, decayed, or wasted by use, weather, etc.
a1586Sidney Ps. viii. viii, What things els of waters traceth The unworn pathes, his rule embraceth. 1602J. Davies (Heref.) Mirum in Modum Wks. (Grosart) I. 29/2 For in Not-beeings bottome, being fast, Ought would to worse then nought, vnworen wast. 1616Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1848) II. 342 Stanes..[that] abyde baith wind and wather, vnworne or consumeit. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1686 II. 98 This great Machine.., unimpaired in its beauty, un⁓worn in its parts. 1757Young Paraphr. Job Wks. I. 215 Will the tall Reem..Submit his unworn shoulder to the yoke. 1771Phil. Trans. LXI. 466 Any two of them, that appeared to be perfect and unworn. 1813Byron Giaour 1059 There read of Cain the curse and crime, In characters unworn by time. 1818Shelley Julian 540 The colours of his mind seemed yet unworn. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. iv. 102 The beautiful countenance yet unworn with anything worse than the sweet sorrows of a visionary love. 1883‘Ouida’ Wanda I. 41 Those cool, vast, unworn mountain solitudes.
b. Not worn or thrown off.
1748Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 258 The unworn-off effects of the midnight revel.
c. Not exhausted or worn out.
1882Pusey Paroch. & Cathedr. Serm. vi. 80 A dull heavy temper He will transform into patient unworn endurance for love of Jesus.
2. Free from deterioration or weakening; unimpaired, fresh.
1757Burke Sublime & Beautiful Introd. ad. fin., In the morning of our days, when the senses are unworn and tender. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii, The unworn Spirit is strong. 1846C. Brontë in Mrs. Gaskell Life (1857) II. 5 While their minds are mostly unemployed, their sensations are all unworn. 1855Browning In Three Days i, See how I come, unchanged, unworn!
absol.1851Helps Comp. Solit. xi. 214 The knowledge to be gained [by travel]..is for the young and the unworn.
3. Of dress, etc.: Not hitherto worn; not actually worn.
1798S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 226 One who appeared to him to be adorned with the unworn jewels of the Marchioness. 1819Wordsw. Misc. Sonn. i. xxi, [She] Put on fresh raiment—till that hour unworn. 1861G. J. Whyte-Melville Good for Nothing I. 140 And yet..the white dress..might have been consigned unworn to its place in the wardrobe. 1894Daily News 7 April 5/3 [In this] painting of Mr. Gladstone..the pince-nez would have been better unworn. |