unwhelmed

comparative more unwhelmed · superlative most unwhelmed

1. Not engulfed or submerged; (figuratively) not overcome with emotion.

   Under the most favourable conditions dialects are destined to dwindle and decay, and we ought to be grateful to the writers who preserve for us a little longer old-time habits, customs and idiosyncracies in the folk speech of small communities as yet unwhelmed by the onrush of modern life.

   1915, J. Redfearn Williamson, “Bernard Gilbert, Dialect Poet”, in The Manchester Quarterly, volume 34, page 71

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   1872, William Watkiss Lloyd, The History of Sicily to the Athenian War; with Elucidations of the Sicilian Odes of Pindar, London: John Murray, Book 2, Chapter 6 “To Hiero of Syracuse (Second Pythian Ode),” p. 291, For I, like the cork above a net, whilst the other tackle plies the sea-toil deep below, am still unwhelmed by the brine.

   1915, Ludwig Lewisohn (translator), Charlemagne’s Hostage, Act II, in The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, New York: B.W. Huebsch, Volume 5, p. 300, […] The old man with the look of one Drowning, who gave thy freedom unto thee— ’Tis he still breathing, still unwhelmed, who crosses Thy path once more to-day.

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