Meanings
comparative more unreclaimed · superlative most unreclaimed
- Not reclaimed.
Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive.
1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo1 more example
It is a creek only by courtesy or an Americanism, at the present day; but when those miles of fertile fields upon the north were unreclaimed, the dank herbage hindered evaporation, and Easton's Pond was fed by unfailing streams.
1858, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858
Origin
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