Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not converted; not changed in opinion; specifically, not brought to accept a (specified) religious faith; in theology, not having abandoned a sinful life: as, the unconverted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not converted or exchanged.
- adjective Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another.
- adjective Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish.
- adjective Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
converted (especially in the religious sense)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not converted
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Examples
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Categorized as "long-term unconverted prisoners," they refused to pledge loyalty to Seoul -- as have 20 fellow spies who still remain behind bars.
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Are you preaching to the "unconverted"-- that is, are you bringing in the previously disengaged or the merely aware to a social movement to strengthen its numbers and potential?
Archive 2009-07-01 Lina Srivastava 2009
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Are you preaching to the "unconverted"-- that is, are you bringing in the previously disengaged or the merely aware to a social movement to strengthen its numbers and potential?
Building Cultural Engagement for Change through Media and Narrative Lina Srivastava 2009
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The converted are accused of hating themselves, and the unconverted are accused of hating everybody else.
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For us non-dittoheads (that is, the unconverted), a more fitting memorial to Mount Rushbo might be a diorama of the environmental destruction that he did so much to enable in his multi-decade reign of denigration.
Rush to Judgment Wolcott, James 2007
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We should direct special efforts toward those who still remain unconverted.
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"Zachariah, do you mean to call unconverted infidels your friends?"
The Revolution in Tanner's Lane Mark Rutherford 1872
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• "Whether . . . 'unconverted' float valves contributed to the eventual blowout, has not yet been, and may never be, established with certainty."
Gulf Political Spill 2011
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To this day, Lee can be found preaching to North Korea's "unconverted" masses.
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The paper's "unconverted" readers included people in the business and other sectors of society who relied on a morning paper, but did not necessarily endorse the Mail's editorial line.
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