uncommissioned love

Definitions

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  • adjective Not commissioned.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ commissioned

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Examples

  • Most of his paintings of Kitty were uncommissioned.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • Most of his paintings of Kitty were uncommissioned.

    Scandalous Women welcomes Guest Blogger Jo Manning Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • Never send an uncommissioned manuscript to a publisher.

    Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009

  • Never send an uncommissioned manuscript to a publisher.

    Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009

  • One of the most disturbing of the cabinet pictures is the "Yard With Lunatics" (1793-94), the last in the series of uncommissioned small paintings that Goya executed during his convalescence from the illness that left him deaf and isolated from the world around him.

    The Entire Human Comedy 2008

  • Such individuals are either commissioned or uncommissioned to receive and transmit God's message, the prophets being those who are among the privileged commissioned.

    Suhrawardi Marcotte, Roxanne 2007

  • And briefly, you said you had difficulty at the beginning coming - some uncommissioned story to you to do.

    CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2007 2007

  • 'And you would mate me with a kid - the Millennium being yet millions of centuries from mankind; being yet, indeed, an archangel high in the seventh heaven, uncommissioned to descend ----?

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • George was exceedingly proud and too discreet to boast that the army now was to proceed as he, an uncommissioned Colonial, had recommended.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • George was exceedingly proud and too discreet to boast that the army now was to proceed as he, an uncommissioned Colonial, had recommended.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

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