Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteObsolete form of unwashed.
Then axed hym the phariſes and ſcribꝭ: why walke not thy diſciples accoꝛdinge to the tradicions of the ſeniours / butt eate bꝛeede with vnweſſhẽ hondꝭ?
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark vij:[5], folio liij, verso1 more example
Then as an overbow of water from the creases of his cap reached his unwashen neck he broke into profanity about the weather, concluding with a malediction on the unhappy terrier, who showed signs of again entangling his lead.
1930 July, John Buchan, “The First Day of the Hegira—The Inn at Watermeeting”, in Castle Gay, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, page 140
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Old Englishunwæsċen“not washed”
- Middle Englishunwaschen
- Englishunwashen
From Middle English unwaschen, from Old English unwæsċen (“not washed”), equivalent to un- + washen.
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