unpenetratedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpɛnᵻtreɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈpɛnəˌtreɪdᵻd/ Not penetrated.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [adjective] > through > not
unpenetrated1669
1669 J. Ogilby tr. A. Kircher Antiq. China iv. i. 79 in tr. J. Nieuhof Embassy E.-India Company Nature hath blocked up her paths with rugged unaccessible, and yet unpenetrated Mountains.
1703 T. Brown et al. Contin. Lett. from Dead to Living (new ed.) 127 You were always very careful of your Lord's Health, and never brought any thing to his Embraces but unpenetrated maids.
1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds I. 161 In some of those remote parts..unpenetrated yet by Europeans.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila ii. ii. 79 Alonzo fell.., his armour, to all appearance, unpenetrated, while the blood oozed slow and gurgling from a mortal wound.
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral 160 The unpenetrated darkness of futurity.
1937 Rotarian Aug. 32/2 The beaten course of their knowledge is fringed by unpenetrated thickets of ignorance.
2009 Independent (Nexis) 28 Sept. 32 Mammoths might still survive in the..vast evergreen forests that stretch, largely unpenetrated, for thousands of miles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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