单词 | unrefused |
释义 | unrefusedadj. Not refused, denied, or rejected. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assent > [adjective] > not opposing, disputing, or protesting > not opposed, disputed, or denied unrefused1548 uncontroverted1654 1548 Duke of Somerset Epist. Inhabitauntes Scotl. sig. Biv Because nothyng should be left..of your part vnrefused. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongeweygert, vnrefused, or Vndenyed. 1735 Mithridates ii. vi. 47 O! sensible Delight, thus unrefus'd, To feast my Eyes upon her various Beauties! 1843 E. Jones Stud. Sensation & Event 155 Its death-gloom grasps my brain With crushing unrefused despair. 1872 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 322/1 We will do it, however—unasked is unrefused. 1978 C. E. Tweddell in R. E. Holloman Perspectives on Ethnicity iii. 315 They gave little thanks and less compensation for unrefused hospitality. 2008 S. Doonan Eccentric Glamour ix. 147 ‘Elegance is refusal’ is surely one of Chanel's best-known..sayings... All we can do is wince and retreat to the shameful inelegance of our non-French, unrefused lives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1548 |
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