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- adjective Not
familiarized .
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Examples
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The Southern Cross is visible, -- sloping backward and sidewise, as if propped against the vault of the sky: it is not readily discovered by the unfamiliarized eye; it is only after it has been well pointed out to you that you discern its position.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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But Truth undisguised, never welcome in any civilized community above ground, is exposed at this time to especial dangers in Paris; and my life would not be worth an hour's purchase if I exhibited her 'in puris naturalibus' to the eyes of a people wholly unfamiliarized to a spectacle so indecorous.
The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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But Truth undisguised, never welcome in any civilized community above ground, is exposed at this time to especial dangers in Paris; and my life would not be worth an hour's purchase if I exhibited her 'in puris naturalibus' to the eyes of a people wholly unfamiliarized to a spectacle so indecorous.
The Parisians — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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