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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

untrumpeted en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + trumpeted.

Meanings

  1. Not having been trumpeted; without fanfare.
    • Quietly, faithfully, their late-paid, ill-paid or altogether unpaid works go into the world untrumpeted, unreviewed and unbought, to give the lie to the fallacy denounced by Annie Dillard a quarter-century ago: “that the novelists of whom we have heard are the novelists we have.” 2009 May 3, “The Fictional Advance”, in New York Times:

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most untrumpeted Degree=Sup lexicographic
more untrumpeted Degree=Cmp lexicographic