单词 | unreclaimed |
释义 | unreclaimedadj. 1. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. DerivativesΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1543 |
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