单词 | unquitted |
释义 | unquittedadj.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [adjective] > relating to retaliation > retaliated > not unquita1400 unyoldenc1540 unrequited1556 unquitteda1678 unretaliated1683 a1678 A. Woodhead Motives Holy Living (1688) i. 14 The necessity (that we attain Salvation) of not living in the custome and habit of any one great, or mortal, sin whatever; and the certain damnation that is from them, if unquitted before our death. 2. Not abandoned, left, or ceased. Cf. unquit adj. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining as opposed to going > remained or not gone ungone1572 unleft1598 unquit1605 unquitted1713 untranslated1745 undismisseda1800 1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 243 Some rough Blast too far above conveighs, Or to unquitted Earth confines your weak Essays. 1840 I. D'Israeli Misc. Lit. (rev. ed.) 97/1 Witnessing the unquitted labour of more than thirty years withered in an hour, the unhappy Carte drew up a faint appeal. 1868 E. F. Wayne Old Paths vi. 62 Those endless periods when the Father's bosom was the unquitted seat of the eternal Son. 1943 Poetry 62 50 This war is the unquitted theme of the poems. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1678 |
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