Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Bereft or deprived of life.
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- adjective That has not been
lived . - adjective obsolete Bereft or deprived of life.
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Examples
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I once dated a woman who had been in one of those programs and we broke it down into the same kind of unlived lives people had and how they blamed their parents for everything.
Archive 2004-06-01 2004
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"I have had to live out some of her unlived life," she said of her difficult, vexing mother.
Radio review: Book of the Week: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 2011
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Most people have two lives: the life we live on a daily basis and the unlived life within us.
Laura Mola: Putting Yourself First: Finding Worth And Validation Inside Laura Mola 2011
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It was shabby, obviously neglected, and unlived in, but it had certain magic about it, which captured both my imagination and my heart.
Mi Pullman: remodeling a Mexican Art Nouveau townhouse I 2009
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Most people have two lives: the life we live on a daily basis and the unlived life within us.
Laura Mola: Putting Yourself First: Finding Worth And Validation Inside Laura Mola 2011
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Nelson's work is as filled with unsifted layers of association as it is with the physical evidence of unlived lives.
Venice Biennale: Mike Nelson's British Pavilion – review 2011
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On quiet streets locals greet each other with four kisses, and behind closed white wooden shutters, in what look like unlived-in homes, some of the finest cognacs on the planet slumber, purposefully.
A Slow Path to Perfection Lennox Morrison 2011
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Most people have two lives: the life we live on a daily basis and the unlived life within us.
Laura Mola: Putting Yourself First: Finding Worth And Validation Inside Laura Mola 2011
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What matters is the intensity and depth of experience of reading and imagining other lives, unlived by the reader.
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Most people have two lives: the life we live on a daily basis and the unlived life within us.
Laura Mola: Putting Yourself First: Finding Worth And Validation Inside Laura Mola 2011
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