unrunadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈrʌn/, U.S. /ˌənˈrən/, Scottish English /(ˌ)ʌnˈrʌn/ Originally Scottish. Now rare.
Of a period of time: not elapsed or completed. Cf. run v. 53.In quot. 1642 with out (cf. to run out 2a(a) at run v. Phrasal verbs 1).
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present1340
nowa1393
presentary?a1425
unrun1474
modernc1485
hodiern?a1513
actual1525
modernal1542
instantc1550
this1582
immediate1605
current1608
nowadays1609
nowaday1632
hodiernal1656
living1659
running1659
daily1663
existent1676
existing1827
present-day1833
presential1878
today1908
1474 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 37/1 Þe tak of þe said landis..for sa mony termes now to cum as was vnrunnyn of þe xix ȝeris.
1475 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 105 Quhat tyme..sa mekel as hapnis to be wnrun of the tak..I sall haf full regres to my sayd lands.
1591 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 176 The reste of the yeares I have to come unron.
1601 in F. G. Emmison Elizabethan Life (1980) V. 80 A tenement and lands in Layer Marney, being unrun 10 years.
1642 H. Jones Perfect Relation Irish-Rebellion 13 For how were..we delivered, when there was but tenne houres left unrun out from catching us in their snare?
1812 A. Eustaphieve Alexis iv. ii, in Reflections 173 No more shall we, from time's course yet unrun, Snatch moments to relieve our publick care.
1898 C. A. Gordon Recoll. Thirty-nine Years Army ix. 85 The period still unrun of service in that country.
1903 Atlantic Reporter 55 690/2 This was equal to the whole amount of his claim for the whole unrun period of his contract.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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