Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not coined: as, uncoined silver. Not minted; lacking the stamp of conventionality; hence, natural, unfeigned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not coined, or minted.
- adjective Not fabricated; not artificial or counterfeit; natural.
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- adjective Not
coined .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"uncoined," as the lovers about Wheathampstead would say.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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Picture book bloggers, who read books and post reviews for the uncoined privilege of participating in the greater cultural exchange, now paying for that privilege via stamps and post-office lines.
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Moreover there was uncoined gold and silver in the form of private and public offerings, sacred vessels used in processions and games, the Persian spoil and other things of the like nature, worth at least five hundred talents9 more.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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It is certain that gold and silver, coined and uncoined, form an admirable means of placing him who has them not, in the power of him who has found out the secret of accumulation.
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They were accompanied by Egestaeans who brought sixty talents8 of uncoined silver, being
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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This did not include the uncoined gold and silver in public and private offerings, the sacred vessels for the processions and games, the Median spoils, and similar resources to the amount of five hundred talents.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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All of this, plus generations of new terms as yet uncoined, will be sneered at as e-speak, a product—just think of it—of two combining forms, which I have just coined this instant unless some e-reader of my e-text beat me to it.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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All of this, plus generations of new terms as yet uncoined, will be sneered at as e-speak, a product—just think of it—of two combining forms, which I have just coined this instant unless some e-reader of my e-text beat me to it.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Someday, a soldier denied fraternization with the local girls will long in print for fraternality, an uncoined word to shorten the equally sexist “brotherhood of Man.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Someday, a soldier denied fraternization with the local girls will long in print for fraternality, an uncoined word to shorten the equally sexist “brotherhood of Man.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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