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untaken-advantage-of en · ADJ

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of untaken advantage of.
   alt of untaken advantage of
   • “[…] That boy Sparks is always hanging about. I think he wants to marry her [Daffy] or something.” / “Probably something,” put in Venus, “if he’s like the boys I used to know.” / “You’re wrong,” declared Daffy. “I’ve already suggested something, but he insists on leaving me untaken-advantage-of.” 1931, Thorne Smith, “The Gods Leave Town”, in The Night Life of the Gods, New York, N.Y.: The Sun Dial Press, Inc., published 1939, →OCLC, page 261:
   • Thus cometh it that You Charley and I are fast friends, and I am under his immediate and powerful protection. To wit, my fowls go unstoned by the Little Willies of the neighborhood (there are two or three); my deafness goeth untaken-advantage-of; and my door un-runaway-knocked at. 1913 June 19, Henry Lawson, “Elder Man’s Lane. V.—The Kids.”, in The Bulletin, volume 34, number 1740, Sydney, N.S.W.: […] William Macleod, […] for The Bulletin Newspaper Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48, column 1:
   • Co-eds in a recently formed organization at New York University are pledged not to marry men who wish to avoid service under the draft law. All we can say is that this is a fitting climax to the most untaken-advantage-of Leap Year in our experience. 1940 November 23, D. N. T., “On the Firing Line”, in The Springfield Union, volume LXXVII, number 325, Springfield, Mass., →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
   • Thus, in comparing a four-pigment system to a three-pigment one--in a common color-area of interest, as defined by pigment-distance vectors in either system's color space--you might find the the^([sic]) four-pigment system much superior at discriminating color differences in that particular area. But if the two different systems occur in the same species, without evolution of highly different behavior patterns with respect to the given color area, you'd figure that the excess-pigment variant was merely a fluke (an untaken-advantage-of consequence of an unrelated genetic happenstance), without any neural wiring to make it useful. 1996 October 17, Raymond A. Chamberlin, “Color Blindness Test”, in sci.med.vision (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Oct 2025:

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