Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not maimed; not disabled in any limb; complete in all the parts; unmutilated; entire.
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- adjective Not
maimed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Almost all the girls who still run away to Agnes are reunited with their families -- once they agree to leave them unmaimed.
Johann Hari: Witch-Hunt: The Hidden War on African Women 2009
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Had nothing happened in Lebanon this summer, Beaufort would have been just another film, albeit a courageous one for Israel, about the lives of young grunts who have barely begun their lives, and who follow orders that don't make sense and try to emerge alive and unmaimed.
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What a true Christmas gift for about three million people who would otherwise be alive or unmaimed today.
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What a true Christmas gift for about three million people who would otherwise be alive or unmaimed today.
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Nevertheless, with God's aid they were preserved unmaimed.
St. Januarius and his companions Argent 2006
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For that matter, what was the point of training to hunt down a criminal, even a murderer, when half a million Tommies were bleeding into the soil of Europe, when every man setting foot on a troop ship knew he held barely even odds of returning to England unmaimed?
The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006
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Palomides, I promise you that I shall be with you by that day if I be unslain or unmaimed.
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It is the first grand duty of an interpreter to give his author entire and unmaimed; and for the rest, the diction and versification only are his proper province, since these must be his own, but the others he is to take as he finds them.
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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And when Sir Palomides was come to the city they made passing great joy of him, and then they beheld him, and saw that he was well made, cleanly and bigly, and unmaimed of his limbs, and neither too young nor too old.
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At his rescue, the only survivor, miraculously unmaimed, her hope had revived.
Man in his Time Aldiss, Brian 1988
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