Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not minded; not heeded; not kept in mind.
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- adjective To which no
attention is paid;ignored ,unheeded .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I answered solemnly, and then being of gentle birth and unminded to strike a defenseless female of uncertain years, I ran; I ran home and wrote a chapter in my book and this is it.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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In the rapid eccentricities of cloud and coruscation, the source which supplied to the varying forms so much of their substance was hidden or unminded.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various
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I answered solemnly, and then being of gentle birth, and unminded to strike a defenseless female of uncertain years, I ran; I ran home and wrote a chapter in my book and this is it.
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Then Doggie broke down, and with a gush of unminded tears found expression for his stony despair.
The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907
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The group, (an unminded point, set in a vast surrounding;)
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They had no relation to me except as I had to nature, but they were my beginnings, my simple ancestors who had stayed simple and unminded, and I was to count those hours happy when I communed with them.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900
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Then Doggie broke down, and with a gush of unminded tears found expression for his stony despair.
The Rough Road William John Locke 1896
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"Whatever, unknown or unminded by others, wanders by night through the labyrinth of the heart" -- that he must transmit to the hearer; he must allow the listener to share with him the gift of "being able to give expression to his suffering."
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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Bathsheba had too much sense to mind seriously what her servitors said about her; but too much womanly redundance of speech to leave alone what was said till it died the natural death of unminded things.
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Bathsheba had too much sense to mind seriously what her servitors said about her; but too much womanly redundance of speech to leave alone what was said till it died the natural death of unminded things.
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