Meanings
- not comparableNot shattered; intact.
Now, ye stand in that past day, grateful images of unshattered repose, simple in your tranquillity, strong in your self-possession, yet ever musical and springing as the footsteps of a child.
1844, S.M. Fuller, Summer on the Lakes, in 18431 more example
They rarely ventured on the attempt to storm any fortified post, for the military engines of antiquity were feeble in breaching masonry before the improvements which the first Dionysius effected in the mechanics of destruction; and the lives of spearmen the boldest and most high-trained would, of course, have been idly spent in charges against unshattered walls.
1905, Various, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2
Origin
Translations
Greek αθρυμμάτιστος
- αθρυμμάτιστος (athrymmátistos)not shattered
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