Meanings
- archaicnot comparablepoeticNot uplifted; downcast.
But she, averse, with unuplifted eyes, Heeded no more his speech than if she stood Carven of flint or hard Marpesian stone
2014, Henry S. Salt, The Story of Aeneas: Virgil's Aeneid Translated Into English Verse, →ISBN, page 1352 more examples
Through all the long day's stillness, lone and deep, Sitting, unwearied as the gladsome brook, That sings along with many a frolic leap, While earnestly his unuplifted look Lives on the yellow page of some old fairy book.
1825, John Wilson, Poems, volume 2, page 226Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes To pace the ground, if path be there or none, While a fair region round the traveller lies Which he forbears again to look upon;
1875, William Wordsworth, The Inner Vision
Origin
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