Meanings
adjectiveunhandseled (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteunused; untouched; pure
Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandseled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and berserkers, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.
1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson, On the American Scholar
Origin
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APA
unhandseled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhandseled
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“unhandseled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhandseled. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unhandseled,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhandseled.
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