Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not promised or engaged; uncovenanted.
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- adjective Not
promised .
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- adjective not promised in marriage
Etymologies
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Examples
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But in the meantime, ghettoized and shtetlized, they lived in their own unpromised, compromised world.
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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But in the meantime, ghettoized and shtetlized, they lived in their own unpromised, compromised world.
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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But in the meantime, ghettoized and shtetlized, they lived in their own unpromised, compromised world.
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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Even the unpromised, the unexpected, will come to you.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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After that welcome appearance as the messenger with the olive-branch, which was an unpromised favour of fortune, Tito had other commissions to fulfil of a more premeditated character.
Romola George Eliot 1849
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Had Horace been consulted, he would have been found to direct only what should be comprised in the proposition, not how it should be expressed; and to have commended Homer in opposition to a meaner poet, not for the gradual elevation of his diction, but the judicious expansion of his plan; for displaying unpromised events, not for producing unexpected elegancies.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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CHAPTER X. "Dear Hasty-Pudding, what unpromised joy
Satanstoe James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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