unweptadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈwɛpt/, U.S. /ˌənˈwɛpt/ 1. Not wept or mourned for; unlamented.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [adjective] > lamented > not
unmoaned1546
unmourned1558
unlamented1569
unbewailed1586
unplained1591
unsorrowed1597
unwept1597
undeplored?1611
unsight1613
unbemoaned1623
unwailed1802
unsighed1815
ungrieved1837
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 65 Our fatherlesse distresse was left vnmoand, Your widdowes dolours likewise be vnwept . View more context for this quotation
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island i. xx. 6 Had not that great Hart..piti'd thy wofull plight; There hadst thou lien unwept, unburied.
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 20 in Justa Edouardo King He must not flote upon his watry biere Unwept.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 402 A shameful fate now hides my hapless head, Un-wept, un-noted, and for ever dead!
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. ii. 40 If you fall, tho' distant, exposed and unwept by those that love you.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. i. 162 The wretch..shall go down To the vile dust,..Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.
1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 413 Patroclus lies at the ships, an unwept, unburied corse.
2. Of tears: Unshed. rare.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective] > shed in weeping > not
unwept1816
1816 Ld. Byron Parisina xx, in Siege of Corinth 89 Those tears..in its depth endure, Unseen, unwept, but uncongealed.
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