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单词 untame
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untameadj.

Etymology: un- prefix1 1. Compare Dutch ontam, Old High German (Middle High German) unzam (German unzahm), Middle Danish utam, (Middle) Swedish otam.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈtame.
Not tame or gentle; wild.
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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
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxx. 8 The vntame hors shal scapen hard.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 287 Whanne al his resoun was untame.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 589 Indomitus, vntame, wylde.
1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 346v If the vntame brayne of Wyndam had..gyuen eare to the counsayle.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xii. xv. 252 How vntame by nature these vipers..are.
1609 Bp. J. Hall David's Psalms viii Thou hast..stretcht his raigne Vnto the heards, and beasts vntame.
1655 W. Hammond Death in Poems 63 The whole world obeys Creations law, onely untame man strayes.

Derivatives

unˈtameness n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > undomesticated > state or condition
wildshipc1275
wildnessc1440
untamedness1592
the (also a) state of nature1798
untameness1871
ferality1885
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Ungentleness, Untameness, Rudeness.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xvii. 307 In curious contrast to the natural tameness of the Kinkajou was the natural untameness of a beautiful little Night-Monkey.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

untamev.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈtame.
(un- prefix2 1a.)
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > make fierce [verb (transitive)]
untame1646
ferocitate1666
grim1710
ferocize1816
1646 J. Shirley Upon Death of C. D. in Poems i. 61 Nor did his courage know to make a pause, When honour call'd so loud, and such a cause As would untame a Hermit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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