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unrecking en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + recking.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) heedless
    • Look! see yonder Turkish cheeks of spotted tawn—living, breathing pictures painted by the sun. The Pagan leopards—the unrecking and unworshipping things, that live; and seek, and give no reasons for the torrid life they feel! 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 36”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

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more unrecking Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unrecking Degree=Sup lexicographic