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unwrought en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English unwrought, unwroght, unwrouȝt, equivalent to un- + wrought. Doublet of unworked.

Meanings

1. In the native state, before being worked on; especially used of bars of bullion and other metal

Forms

Translations (5)

grc ᾱ̓ργός (in its native state, before being worked on) · el ασφυρηλάτητος (in its native state, before being worked on) · ga glas (in its native state, before being worked on) · ru необрабо́танный (in its native state, before being worked on) · gv neuobbrit (in its native state, before being worked on)

unwrought en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English unwrought, unwroght, unwrouȝt, equivalent to un- + wrought. Doublet of unworked.

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of unwork
   form of unwork
   • […]Do not say ‘I love her for her smile — her look — her way Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’ — For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee, — and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.[…] c. 1845-46, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, in If Thou Must Love Me: