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- adjective Not
given .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is to get their attention, otherwise ungiven.
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“What has been once so interwoven cannot be raveled nor the gift ungiven.”
What Did I Do Wrong? Liz Pryor 2006
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“What has been once so interwoven cannot be raveled nor the gift ungiven.”
What Did I Do Wrong? Liz Pryor 2006
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She could smile and be silent, and give him her hand or leave it ungiven, as he might demand.
Lady Anna 2004
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* Miscellaneous memorabilia which includes travel stubs, holiday lights, ungiven gifts, walkie talkies, etc.
Boing Boing: October 6, 2002 - October 12, 2002 Archives 2002
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The wretched Rifleman had destroyed the flour, and so Ferragus's token gift to the French had stayed ungiven, and the French had been expecting the flour and they would now think Ferragus could not be trusted, and that left Ferragus and his brother with a problem.
Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003
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We sat for some minutes in silence, but it was not the comforting silence of companionship; I could feel his eyes on my face, and was intensely conscious of his presence on the other side of the little table, and between us the air positively sizzled with unasked questions and ungiven answers.
Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967
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We now stood fairly on the rock, prepared to encounter any given, or ungiven quantity of birds or beasts.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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By an ungiven signal the three boats got into line.
The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar Margaret Penrose
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Surely the girl was made for to-day; she never missed the work or joy of a moment here in dreaming of a yet ungiven life, as sham, lazy women do.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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