unlessenedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈlɛsnd/, U.S. /ˌənˈlɛs(ə)nd/ Not lessened; undiminished.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > decreased > not
unminished1529
undiminished1587
unbated1600
unabateda1625
unweakened1648
unlessened1651
unreduced1781
undeadened1813
undilapidated1830
unslackened1844
unemasculated1888
1651 J. Reading Guide to Holy City xxxiv. 416 All is disposed by the all-guiding providence, and unlessened power of Gods word.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 21 This active Power remains,..unlessened.
1770 M. Peters Rational Farmer 89 Manures even blended with the earth lie there, unlessened of their salutary virtue.
1842 J. B. Fraser Allee Neemroo II. 99 His uneasiness remained unlessened and unaltered.
1891 C. Mitford Lett. & Reminisc. J. Mitford 163 His love for me remained unlessened.
1931 E. Sisson One Hundred Red Days xx. 298 The risks seemed to him unlessened.
2014 R. A. Anselment in A. Thornton My First Bk. of my Life (new ed.) Introd. p. xli Implicit in the attempt to reconcile her will with God's is the pain unlessened by the deaths of five other children.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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