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  • adjective Not illumined; unlit.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ illumined

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Examples

  • "God's mercy exceeds His justice, and that soul can progress in the world beyond; the unillumined soul can become brilliant."

    Rothwell Polk: Does Anything Trump God's Justice? Rothwell Polk 2011

  • "God's mercy exceeds His justice, and that soul can progress in the world beyond; the unillumined soul can become brilliant."

    Rothwell Polk: Does Anything Trump God's Justice? Rothwell Polk 2011

  • Subsequently a peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disk.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • The tangled complexity of modern emotions, of unillumined doubt, of icy courage play over its nervous features.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • The tangled complexity of modern emotions, of unillumined doubt, of icy courage play over its nervous features.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • The original hand-to-mouth entertainers take their show on the road through the fungous, unillumined woods of aeon-decayed New England, wherein lurk the unhallowed, polypous horrors of immemorial abysses.

    February 26th, 2007 curufea 2007

  • This compromise is a rough, utilitarian and unillumined compromise.

    Life Divine and Beautiful Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Subsequently a peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the

    The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

  • Days and days of unprofitable stubbing and digging, and the result still poor as literature, left-handed, heavy, unillumined, but I believe readable and interesting as matter.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • And, thereafter, Asa coming in, and Clyde not having as yet departed for the hotel, he heard them discussing the matter in some strangely inattentive and unillumined way, as if it was not quite as startling as it had seemed to him.

    An American Tragedy 2004

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