unbluntedadj.
(un- prefix1 2.)
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the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [adjective]
sharpc825
bitel?c1200
keena1225
carving?c1225
fellc1330
trenchantc1330
snarpc1480
cuttinga1533
tart?a1534
undullc1540
steel-sharpa1560
teen1578
unrebated1579
unbated1604
biting1607
eager?1611
unblunted1656
shrewd1878
cutty1903
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > [adjective]
passiblec1384
susceptive1577
impressive1593
waxy1594
eath1596
impressible1626
mutual1657
responsive1657
open1672
susceptible1709
unsteeled1744
unblunted1775
sensate1788
affectible1796
tangible1813
suscipient1815
impressionable1833
impressional1860
unseared1860
reachable1873
passionful1902
1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 85 in Poems A Sword whose weight without a blow might slay, Able unblunted to cut Hosts away.
1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) II. lvi. 168 My feelings were, as yet, unblunted by habitual trespasses.
1779 Mirror No. 67 While the warm feelings of benevolence remain unblunted by those artificial manners.
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI cix. 118 Anacreon only had the soul to tie an Unwithering myrtle round the unblunted dart Of Eros.
1867 A. D. Whitney Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life viii. 127 The full white light of such unblunted day.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) ii. ii. 164 [I] woke again with an unblunted sense of my surroundings.
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