Meanings
adjectiveunlavished (not comparable)
- not comparableNot lavished.
But now appeared a stranger, whom the host had no sooner recognized, than, with an abundance of courtesy unlavished on any other, he hastened down the whole length of the saloon, in order to pay him emphatic honor.
1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse
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unlavished. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlavished
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“unlavished.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlavished. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unlavished,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlavished.
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