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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unlavished en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + lavished.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not lavished.
    • But now appeared a stranger, whom the host had no sooner recognized, than, with an abundance of courtesy unlavished on any other, he hastened down the whole length of the saloon, in order to pay him emphatic honor. 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse: