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- adjective Not
imitated .
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Examples
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But Falstaff unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee?
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Only -- and it is true that he is the unimitated and the inimitable.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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But the flatterer is exactly like the chameleon, [381] which takes every colour but white, and so he, though unable to imitate what is worth his while, leaves nothing that is bad unimitated.
Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch
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Here we have Puritanism at first-hand: the original, unimitated, and transient resultant of influences which had been working to produce it, and which would continue their working so as to insure modifications of it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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Now, hold your breath and note, on the side of the Victor-prince, this unparalleled and unimitated action: He has left the conflict open, and the defeated chief on the field that He may win not simply against the chief, but through that victory may win the whole prodigal race back to His
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Church of Hagia Sophia had remained undeveloped, unimitated by later architects.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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A piece of vengeance on poor dead bones that remained unimitated until one of the mobs of the first French Revolution scattered the bones of the French Kings buried in the vaults of St. Denis.
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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D'Espremenil, a most patriotic Oath, of the One-and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat; -- an excellent new-idea, which, in these coming years, shall not remain unimitated.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Here, too, lies the excellence, the imitable, but alas! unimitated, excellence of our divines from Elizabeth to William III.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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In the arduous character of the "inimitable and unimitated Falstaff" he has no rival on this side the Atlantic.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 Samuel James Arnold 1813
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