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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unrenewed en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + renewed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not renewed.
    • Here also, as in the stables, the technical knowledge of the Founder is seen; his "chambers," after more than 500 years, have still their old stone unrenewed; while the third story, added 300 years later on (1674-5), has had to be entirely refaced. 1920, J. Wells, The Charm of Oxford:
    • There was not, in fact, in all the reorganized house, a place where he felt himself to be at all the proper thing; nowhere where he could lounge, and read his newspaper, without a feeling of impropriety; nowhere that he could indulge in any of the slight Hottentot-isms wherein unrenewed male nature delights,--without a feeling of rebuke. 1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pink and White Tyranny: