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单词 unreclaimed
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unreclaimedadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈkleɪmd/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈkleɪmd/
Forms: see un- prefix1 and reclaimed adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, reclaimed adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + reclaimed adj.
1.
a. Not summoned to return. Obsolete. rare.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adjective] > summoning > summoned > back > not
unreclaimed1543
unrecalled1597
unrevoked1654
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 236 He then his lawe and peace alwaye proclaymed..And so held on to London vnreclaymed.
b. Not regained, retrieved, or recovered.In quot. 1741: not demanded back.Now much less common than unclaimed in this sense.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [adjective] > not reclaimed
unreclaimed1741
1741 R. Nugent Ode to Mankind xviii. 11 Wise Nature mocks the wrangling Herd; For unreclaim'd, and untransfer'd, Her Pow'rs and Rights remain.
1753 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 129/1 Is it then likely..that Gillius, who survived two years the first publication of that work, should leave it unreclaimed, if it had been his?
1827 J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law II. v. xxxvi. 293 The statute law of Massachusetts..disposed of estrays, lost money, and goods, if unreclaimed for a year, by giving one half of the proceeds to the finder, and the other half to the poor of the town.
1905 Marketing Goods in Foreign Countries (U.S. Dept. Commerce & Labor) 195 They are owned by the customs authorities and conducted by them. Transit and unreclaimed goods are stored in them.
2003 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 15 Nov. (48 Hours section) 2 [His] job is to dispose of the unreclaimed items in two auctions a year.
2. Not restored to a good spiritual or moral state, or reformed from a life of vice or undesirable behaviour; (also in weaker, more general use) not changed or reformed. Now somewhat archaic.
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society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adjective] > unreformed
incorrect1435
unamended1549
unreformed1549
unreclaimed1591
unchastened1641
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > [adjective] > very
sin-wooda1325
clumseda1340
obduratec1450
obdureda1500
unreclaimed1591
obfirmed1597
sooty1656
unreconciled1711
society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penitence > impenitence > [adjective]
unrepentantc1384
uncontritec1450
unforthinking1483
obdureda1500
unpenitent1530
impenitent1532
unrepenting?1575
irrepentant1583
obdure?1590
unreclaimed1591
unremorseful1598
unconfessing1641
repentless1681
compunctionless1830
unatoning1838
unapologetic1892
1591 T. Lodge Catharos f. 26 The remedies of luxurie: by which..some of our vnreclaymed Athenian yongsters, may..keepe and preserue themselues from this contagion.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. i. 35 The flash and out-breake of a fierie mind, A sauagenes in vnreclamed blood, Of generall assault. View more context for this quotation
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. iv. i. 138/1 Their manners vnreclaimed, and barbarisme.., doe witnesse no such ciuilitie sowen, to bee in that plot.
1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad ix. 281 Yet, unreclaim'd, from such atrocious deeds, To more and worse your desp'rate rage proceeds.
1781 ‘Solin’ Persian Epist. 18 Some,..unreclaim'd by Pills and Birch,..Have in their Teens to Syrens lent A list'ning ear, and still in vain Lament faux pas in Drury Lane.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. ii. 65 In tormenting pained; Unawed by wrath; by mercy unreclaimed.
1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 178 They retain whatever was admirable in their unreclaimed state.
1914 Mother Earth July 171 They must not imagine that all people are constituted after their model and likely to come round to their views or remain ‘unreclaimed’ adversaries on whom no sympathy is to be wasted.
2003 Stud. in Novel 35 466 [The description] not only characterizes her exile but also perpetuates her status as unreclaimed sinner.
3. Not reduced to obedience; unsubdued; spec. (of an animal, esp. a hawk) not tamed or trained. Later also designating a people considered wild, savage, or uncivilized. Now rare.In application to people, often coloured by or difficult to distinguish from sense 2.
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > untamed
wildc725
untemeda1000
savagea1275
ramagec1300
untameda1340
untamea1382
ramageousa1398
tameless1597
unreclaimed1614
indomite1617
immansuete1656
feral1659
myall1848
wilding1853
maroon1890
undomesticated1972
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > not tamed
untameda1340
untamea1382
ramageousa1398
haggard1566
ramage1567
tameless1597
undauntoned1609
unmeekened1612
unreclaimed1614
1614 S. Latham Falconry i. ii. 5 (heading) A perfect description of the Hawgard Faulcon, with the manner and course of her life, while shee is wilde, and vnreclaimed.
1631 G. Chapman Warres of Pompey & Caesar in Plays (1873) III. 193 Antony: [of Cato]. Vnreclaimed man!
1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Fable Acis, Polyphemus & Galatea in Examen Poeticum 89 Bullocks, unreclaim'd to bear the Yoke.
1746 tr. D. De Coetlogon Tour through Animal World 67 The haggard Falcon, when wild and unreclaimed, takes the greatest Liberty of all Birds.
a1788 J. Gast Hist. Greece (1793) I. i. 34 Their little territories were encompassed with woodland,..the haunt of wild beasts and unreclaimed savages.
1835 Metropolitan Oct. 43 Mr. Lake, like an unreclaimed hawk, flies at every thing.
1889 Autumn Leaves June 261/2 The unreclaimed tribe of the Cordilleras of the Andes.
1900 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. 25 163 There are some wild unreclaimed tribes in the Northwest.
4. Of land: not brought under cultivation or made fit for habitation; uncultivated, wild.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective]
westeeOE
wildc893
wastyc1230
wastec1290
untilled1297
void1398
wilsomea1400
desolate1413
wastablea1450
unlaboured1474
untilthed1495
spare1508
unmanured1541
unculted1548
uncultured1555
Hyrcan1567
untoiled1578
manureless1595
griggy1597
Wealdish1598
Hyrcanian1600
unwrought1600
wealy1601
uncultived1605
incult1624
unmanaged1634
incultivateda1657
uncultivate1659
uncultivated1684
unreclaimed1753
wildered1810
irreclaimed1814
natural1827
feral1882
1753 Let. to Person of Distinction 9 Struggling thro' the Disadvantages of an unreclaimed Soil, and a limited Commerce, we were not worthy the Attention of polite Strangers.
1763 London Chron. 17 May 475/1 Where there were large tracts of unreclaimed grounds, they were estimated in quantity for quality.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 468 This island, spot of unreclaim'd rude earth.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 157 Land of this description..in its unreclaimed state.
1875 R. Hill & F. Hill What we saw in Austral. xii. 228 Finding ourselves in a moment in the wild unreclaimed country again.
1915 Proc. 7th Ann. Drainage Convent. N. Carolina Drainage Assoc. 51 I hope that so long as there is an unreclaimed area of wet land in North Carolina that this Association shall be an active force for its drainage.
1999 M. Shoard Right to Roam iii. 106 A cluster of houses in the centre with open fields radiating outwards and unreclaimed, often ancient, woodland at the edge of the parish.

Derivatives

unreclaimedness n. Obsolete the quality or state of being unrestrained in one's behaviour, or morally or spiritually unreformed.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [noun]
unrulinessc1400
wildnessc1400
ramagec1485
untamedness1592
unruliment1596
uncomeliness1607
unreclaimedness1611
infrenation1623
indocility1648
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > unreformed condition
unreformedness1607
unreclaimedness1611
unreformation1648
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > [noun] > condition > very
unreclaimedness1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sauvageté, sauagenesse, wildnesse, unreclaimednesse.
1646 S. Bolton Arraignment of Errour 28 Unreclaimednesse under any sin whatever will bring in errour.
a1691 R. Boyle Free Disc. Customary Swearing (1695) 44 By the same reason the Thief might justify the unreclaimedness in his Robberies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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