单词 | unhackneyed |
释义 | unhackneyedadj. 1. Not habituated by long practice; inexperienced. Const. in. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [adjective] > not used or accustomed unused1297 insolent?a1505 uncustomed?1520 unwont1552 unured1566 unwonteda1586 unhardened1600 unseasoned1608 unaccustomed1611 unconversanta1674 uninureda1708 unhackneyed1760 unfamiliarized1775 unhabituated1796 unhabituate1815 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xi. 58 In plain truth, he was a man unhackneyed and unpractised in the world. 1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life III. 94 I was then unhackneyed in the villainies of mankind. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ix. 154 He had a sort of naiveté and openness of demeanour, that seemed to belong to one unhackneyed in the ways of intrigue. View more context for this quotation 2. Not rendered commonplace or stale by frequent use or contact. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [adjective] > unusual or unwonted > not rendered usual or commonplace untraded1609 unhackneyed1824 unhacked1894 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 93 Her English was racy, unhackneyed, proper to the thought to a degree that only original thinking could give. 1856 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) iv. 236 To open to her almost untried and certainly unhacknied regions of beauty. 1880 Academy 27 Nov. 390/1 His [picture]..shows a research after unhackneyed effects. Derivatives unˈhackneyedness n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > newness, freshness, or originality noveltya1398 greenness1544 nap1591 verd1603 virginity1639 originalness1727 originality1782 freshness1807 verdurousness1856 unhackneyedness1884 1884 Saintsbury in Ward Eng. Poets III. 218 There is almost always something novel in his dressing up of his images and a suggestive unhackneyedness in their expression. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1760 |
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