Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not shortened, of the same length.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unshorten.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word unshortened.

Examples

  • And talking about links: it's also very helpfull to see the "unshortened" version of included links.

    The Next Web 2009

  • So it is with many prisoners, keep them confined, and accustom them for years to prison life, such as it is in the most approved "models," or indeed under any conceivable mode of discipline consistent with unshortened life in such a place, and they will re-enter the world in a great measure, unfitted for the business of life.

    Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

  • Others, not doubting that the infected men died at Jaffa, say, that the rearguard under Kleber, by order of Bonaparte, delayed its departure for three days, and only began its march when. death had put an end to the sufferings of these unfortunate beings, unshortened by any sacrifice.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • She was poor, but the same good grit that made her loyal to her old grandmother's name, unshortened and unbeautified, gave her courage to work on toward the distant goal.

    Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • She was poor, but the same good grit that made her loyal to her old grandmother's name, unshortened and unbeautified, gave her courage to work on toward the distant goal.

    Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • She was poor, but the same good grit that made her loyal to her old grandmother's name, unshortened and unbeautified, gave her courage to work on toward the distant goal.

    Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • Suppose the span of each generation to be shortened by one-sixth, so that six take the place of five, and that the productivity of each marriage is unaltered, it follows that one-sixth more children will be brought into the world during the same time, which is roughly equivalent to increasing the productivity of an unshortened generation by that amount.

    Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles 1909

  • A nourishing soup could be made of the peas, and if only he could "find" an egg, he could mix it with sorghum and bake it in an unshortened open crust for dessert.

    My day : reminiscences of a long life, 1909

  • If this living and unshortened love was sad, it must be owned that so, too, was the story.

    The Spirit of Place and Other Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884

  • Others, not doubting that the infected men died at Jaffa, say, that the rearguard under Kleber, by order of Bonaparte, delayed its departure for three days, and only began its march when. death had put an end to the sufferings of these unfortunate beings, unshortened by any sacrifice.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.