Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not thought; not imagined or conceived; not considered: often followed by of, formerly by on.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unthink .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective so unexpected as to have not been imagined
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Examples
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No, experts do not always have the right answers, but more often can bring those questions that otherwise would go "unthought".
GraniteGrok 2010
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Against this, identifies a pervasive "unthought" which can mislead unbelievers when they consider religion just as easily as equivalent "unthoughts" may lead believers into strange ideas.
Only a Game 2008
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There are three “convergences” that Merleau-Ponty sees between Husserl’s phenomenology and Heidegger’s ontology, more precisely, what remains "unthought" in Husserl and Heidegger’s explicit thinking.
enowning enowning 2008
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There are three “convergences” that Merleau-Ponty sees between Husserl’s phenomenology and Heidegger’s ontology, more precisely, what remains "unthought" in Husserl and Heidegger’s explicit thinking.
Archive 2008-09-01 enowning 2008
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This unsavory aspect of life is kept hidden and generally unthought of in our daily meals.
Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn: Eïd al-Adha: The Significance Of Ritual Sacrifice Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn 2011
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The evidence is thin but compelling: those schools which are able to reassure pupils that something will be done about bullying are also those with an active pupil council - a concept that was simply unthought of in my day, in my religious-controlled grammar school.
August Books 1) To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee nwhyte 2009
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Just when a decisive voice is called for, there's Michael Ignatieff bleating almost en passant about the Harper cut-and-run exercise, and then proffering loads of hype about a Liberal "thinkers 'conference" in March (which may conflict with a Spring election call, leaving all those thoughts unthought).
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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Some decisions seem so unthought out and unmachiavellian they make you want to reach for your cloak and dagger.
What would Machiavelli think of David Cameron? Jonathan Jones 2010
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Just when a decisive voice is called for, there's Michael Ignatieff bleating almost en passant about the Harper cut-and-run exercise, and then proffering loads of hype about a Liberal "thinkers 'conference" in March (which may conflict with a Spring election call, leaving all those thoughts unthought).
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This unsavory aspect of life is kept hidden and generally unthought of in our daily meals.
Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn: Eïd al-Adha: The Significance Of Ritual Sacrifice Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn 2011
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