unrage en · NOUN
Etymology
From un- + rage.
Meanings
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(poetic, uncountable) Absence of rage
There is a rumor the eagle nurses now a mood to abdicate forever and for good as flagpole-sitter for the State. Is it the fall of age merely, a geriatrical complaint, this drift to disengage, this cool unrage? or rather some dark philosophic taint?
1985, Robert Francis, Collected Poems 1936-1976 - Page 195:I have once before, from out of the switching-terraces gardens, the views to the South, to the West, and a little in the East seen unrage reinforcement posterns, the light strokes first in the mist-circle of the littoral area, and lamps inflamed in [...]
2006, Douglas Messerli, The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century:Misses was the Farewell Maid & his not un-rage was sun-orange & glowed at his fingertips, The wreath of the Cherub—[…]
2014, M. FLORES JR., Collected Poems:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| un-rage | alternative | lexicographic |