unpent

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adjective

Not pent or pent up, unconfined, released.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

adjectiveunpent (comparative more unpent, superlative most unpent)

comparative more unpent · superlative most unpent

  1. Not pent or pent up, unconfined, released.

    Not with the rage with which this whirlwind blows, Joust warring winds, north, south, and east, unpent.

    1831, William Stewart Rose, Orlando Furioso
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    And there, unpent by mountains, one saw the sky—the sky, not such a disc as one saw it here, but an arch of immeasurable blue, a deep of deeps in which the circling stars were floating...

    1911, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories

Origin

From un- + pent. Compare Old English onpennad (“unpent, open”).

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Chicago

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