† unowedadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Not owned.
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the mind > possession > non-possession > fact of not being possessed or owned > [adjective] > having no owner
vacant1560
unpossessed1582
unowned1611
unoweda1616
unmastered1793
ownerless1806
unattached1888
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. iii. 148 And England now is left To tug and scamble, and to part by th' teeth The vn-owed interest of proud swelling State. View more context for this quotation
?1775 J. Smeeton Minutiæ 5 Then take me to thy Grace—approve the sigh That breathes contrition for unow'd offence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.a1616- unrevoked
- unrevolutionary
- unrevolutionized
- unrevolved
- unrevolving
- unrewardable
- unrewarded
- unrewardedly
- unrewarding
- unrewardingly
- unrhetorical
- unrhymed
- unrhymedder
- unrhymeddest
- unrhymeder
- unrhymedest
- unrhythmic
- unrhythmical
- unrhythmically
- unrhythmiccer
- unrhythmiccest
- unrhythmicer
- unrhythmicest
- unribbed
- unrich