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单词 unshapen
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unshapenadj.

Etymology: un- prefix1 2b. Compare Old English unsceapen, ungesceapen, Middle Dutch ongescapen (Dutch -schapen), Middle Low German ungeschapen, Old High German -scaffan (Middle High German and German -schaffen).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈshapen.
= unshaped adj.
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the world > space > shape > lack of shape > [adjective] > unformed or not shaped
unformeda1340
unshapenc1350
unfashioned1538
unshaped1572
informed?1609
indigested1613
unmoulded1620
ineffigiate1657
unacted1700
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [adjective] > not fully formed
unshapenc1350
wanec1485
unshaped1572
unmade1578
semi-formed1828
c1350 Athanasian Creed in MS. Bodl. 425 f. 69 b Vnshapen fadir unshapen son is, Vnshapen heli gost in blis.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 163 Al þe longage of þe Norþhumbres..is..scharp, slitting, and frotynge and vnschape [L. incondita].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 367 Þe mater of foure elementis, þat ȝeit was þan of forme vnschapin [Vesp. mischapen].
a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) ix. sig. Ffiv An vnshapen bunchy speare..Sir Pandare whirling threw.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 237 Will she yet debase her eyes..On me that halt, and am vnshapen [1623 mishapen] thus. View more context for this quotation
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. vi. 116 A Bear brings forth her young informous and unshapen . View more context for this quotation
1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. vii. 322 This Unshapen Mass without Form, and void.
1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 42 Columns were originally made of unshapen Trees.
1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. 44 A rough unshapen stone, of an enormous size.
1814 Mermaid i. ii, in New Brit. Theatre II. 478 They ran to mock her hump'd unshapen form.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 9 Pale unshapen embryos of social sympathy.

Derivatives

unˈshapeness n.
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the world > space > shape > lack of shape > [noun] > state of being unshaped
unshapeness1398
informity1583
unshapedness1587
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [noun] > state of not being moulded into shape
unshapeness1398
unshapedness1587
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xiii. xxii. (Tollem. MS.) It was clepid abbissus for unschapnesse,..for it was distinged with no forme noþer schappe.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongeschapenheydt, vncreatednesse, or Vnshapennesse.
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