Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not reclaimed.
  • Not reformed; not called back from vice to virtue: as, a sinner unreclaimed.
  • Not brought into a state of cultivation, as desert or wild land.

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  • adjective Not reclaimed.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ reclaimed

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Examples

  • But they must not imagine that all people are constituted after their model and likely to come round to their views or remain "unreclaimed" adversaries on whom no sympathy is to be wasted.

    Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth 2010

  • The unreclaimed United Nuclear waste pile stirred up bad feeling every day.

    Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

  • The marsh canals are unreclaimed through fear of the effect on groundwater, and stone quarries which provide work but have degraded much of the south side of the Park still operate.

    Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia 2008

  • Do you imagine that to a lady like me, as free as the unreclaimed falcon, you can offer the insult of captivity, without my being sensible to the disgrace, or incensed against the authors of it?

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Of that total, it is estimated that 150 million computers will be recycled that year and 55 million computers will end up in landfills along with unreclaimed portions of the 150 million recycled computers.

    Computer recycling USGS 2008

  • People sometimes call these dark yards ‘gardens’; it is not supposed that they were ever planted, but rather that they are pieces of unreclaimed land, with the withered vegetation of the original brick – field.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • But here, the topsoil pile for yet another, unreclaimed, gas well gave me a few meters of height.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2007

  • Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation: an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • In between, it runs through woodlands, through unreclaimed marsh, wild in culverts and well-behaved beside suburban backyards.

    War for the Oaks Bull, Emma, 1954- 1987

  • Well for him if it proved that Ninian could speak for him, and show clearly that his own bitter debt had gone unreclaimed.

    The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

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