Meanings
- not comparableNot having been exposed to the sun.
[…] I thought her As chaste as unsunn’d snow.
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]3 more examples
[…] but day by day Life brings you nothing new or bright: The bloom of boyhood dies away; And youth, unsunned by youth’s delight, Yields place to manhood tame and drear— Blank year succeeding to blank year.
1878, John Addington Symonds, “In the Inn at Berchtesgaden”, in Many Moods: A Volume of Verse, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 41Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr. Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house.
1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Incident of the Letter”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 49–50This portion of basement was uncemented, low-ceiled, earthy, unsunned.
1944, Emily Carr, “Basement”, in The House of All Sorts
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishsunned
- Englishunsunned
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