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  • adjective Not risen.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ risen

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Examples

  • Making their way out of the forest, they meet Michelle, an unrisen angel.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How to Write a Novel Synopsis 2009

  • The filling is mixed up and spread into the unrisen dough.

    Baking Bites » Print » Easy King Cake 2009

  • The filling is mixed up and spread into the unrisen dough.

    Easy King Cake | Baking Bites 2009

  • Like the afterglow, for a great height above the horizon there is a shaded band of the most intense and glowing orange, while the mountains which reflect the yet unrisen sun have the purple light of amethysts.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • The air around Chang began to buzz with the excited anticipation of an audience before an unrisen curtain.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

  • The air around Chang began to buzz with the excited anticipation of an audience before an unrisen curtain.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

  • The light of the unrisen moon before him spread out along the dark placard hills like scrimlights in a theatre.

    No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005

  • A single high cloud glowing salmon-pink against the neon-blue sky testified to the impending brilliance of the unrisen sun.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • It was night when they reached it, but the clear sky began to thrill with a late moon as yet unrisen, and the waves, breaking gently upon the beach, glimmered with a radiance born of their own motion.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • Meanwhile, the side next the sun is flooded with an aerial aureole of subtle mist, a drift of liquid gold, a gush of living light, rippling from the unrisen orb, decreasing in warmth and brilliancy, paling and fading and waxing faint with infinite gradations proportioned to the increase of distance.

    The Land of Midian 2003

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