unhearing en · ADJ · etymology 1
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English hearing English unhearing From un- + hearing.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not hearing.
[She] flung herself / Down on the great King's couch, and writhed upon it, / And clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm, / And shriek'd out 'traitor' to the unhearing wall, […]
1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 179:Camille said, as if unhearing, "Of course Apollo isn't with us permanently, you know!"
2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 272: