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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English wept English unwept From un- + wept.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not wept.
Wish those nights not spent, / Long, unhappy nights, / Which in sighings went / Over lost delights? / Wish those tears unwept, / When you seemed unkind?
1894, Laurence Binyon, Lyric Poems:
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(not-comparable) Unmourned.
It was but a few days after the poor mother had gone to her lonely burying-place; and was laid, unwept and disregarded, in a vault full of strangers.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man.
1843, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in A Christmas Carol:Let fall thy tears! Let rise thy strain! / So canst thou never be among / Those heritors of man's disdain, / Th' unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
1894, Edmund Vance Cooke, A Patch of Pansies: