Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not illumined; not lighted up.
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- adjective archaic Not
illumed ;unlit .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But, oh, must I go out into that unillumed darkness, forever shut out from light and hope?
Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival Alvin Addison
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Oh, it was in his eyes quite an unillumed age, that period of Elizabeth which we see full of suns! and few can see what is close to the eyes though they run their heads against it; the denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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Oh, it was in his eyes quite an unillumed age, that period of Elizabeth which _we_ see full of suns! and few can see what is close to the eyes though they run their heads against it; the denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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