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单词 unfoughten
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unfoughtenadj.

Etymology: un- prefix1 2b. Compare Middle Dutch and Dutch ongevochten, Middle High German ungevohten (without fighting).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈfoughten.
Now archaic.
= unfought adj.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > [adjective] > that has fought > not
unfoughten1475
unfought1523
maiden1598
society > armed hostility > peace > non-belligerency > [adjective] > without fighting
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unfought1596
1475 Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 47 Youre gret adversarie of Fraunce..fled and voided unfoughten at the said jorney of Senlis.
?15.. Battle of Otterburn xli, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 297 If that I weynde..onfowghten awaye, He wolde me call but a kowarde knyght.
c1500 Three Kings' Sons (1895) 89 In-asmoche as we haue ben so long vnfoughten with.
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844) 140 He had sufferyd them..to passe by him unfoughten withal.
1811 W. Scott Don Roderick Concl. viii. 62 But thou—unfoughten wilt thou yield to Fate?
1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason ix. 164 Soothly, have we no will to fight with thee lf we may pass unfoughten.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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