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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unretorted en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + retorted.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not heated in a retort.
  2. (not-comparable) Not responded to with a retort.
    • She is the last person in the world, from whom he will endure, unretorted, the language of reproach. 1831, William Sullivan, The Moral Class Book, Or, The Law of Morals, page 202: