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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unfallen en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + fallen.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not having fallen; that has not experienced or suffered a fall.
    • The unfallen world beyond time remains as a background to the figured beats of the heart in our world of serial progression. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 10:
    • For me, in any case, Ladakh seemed a beautifully unfallen place next to the blue-glass shopping malls of modern Lhasa, the global village of pizza joints and guesthouses that is urban Nepal, or long-isolated Bhutan with its chic new hotels. 2009 March 13, Pico Iyer, “Heaven’s Gate”, in New York Times:

Deriveds

unfallenness