unobliteratedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnəˈblɪtəreɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənəˈblɪdəˌreɪdᵻd/ Not obliterated.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [adjective] > not obliterated
undefaced1565
unobliterated1644
unerased1770
uneffaced1792
1644 H. Parker Jus Populi 43 Whilst [in the times of Adam] the neare relation of blood was fresh, and unobliterated.
1672 H. Dodwell Two Lett. Advice i. xx. 86 Those unobliterated impressions of Conscience and Modesty.
1738 G. Lillo Marina iii. ii Some traces there.., yet unobliterated, Of my long dead..Pericles.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. x. viii. 317 There was a red stain upon the pavement, unobliterated.
1894 Daily News 10 Mar. 3/4 The letter-carrier would either appropriate the stamp..or he would deliver it unobliterated.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xiii. 321 Cysts may arise from unobliterated remnants of these openings.
2013 Observer (Nexis) 28 July (Review section) 8 He retained in some unobliterated part of himself the necessary clarity to set down on paper a portrait of the self-deceiving nature of the alcoholic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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