Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not pronounced; not uttered.

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  • adjective That is not pronounced.

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Examples

  • Bacon (as may be seen from the facsimile printed by Dr. Hirsch) left the letter _Ayin_ unpronounced, which is by far the best course for

    The Book of Delight and Other Papers Israel Abrahams 1891

  • Even the crotch area, which usually bulges with virility for nearly all superheroes, appears flat and unpronounced.

    Going Mutant Dr. Barry Leed 2010

  • Imagine: 1. Dropping all silent and unpronounced double letters.

    Kaplin's Simplifiid Speling, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Perhaps whether the utterance is meant as a threat, a prediction or a command will depend on some part of her content that was left unpronounced?

    Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla 2009

  • Eve, big for a woman, had mannish hips and unpronounced breasts.

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • "The country is under an unpronounced state of emergency."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Chicago, for instance, argues for four kinds of exceptions (words and proper names that are "plural in form, singular in meaning," multisyllabic names that end in an "eez" sound, words and names that end in an unpronounced s, and words and names that end in s in for … sake expressions).

    Word Court 2006

  • Chicago, for instance, argues for four kinds of exceptions (words and proper names that are "plural in form, singular in meaning," multisyllabic names that end in an "eez" sound, words and names that end in an unpronounced s, and words and names that end in s in for … sake expressions).

    Word Court 2006

  • Camilla, impressed with the promise she had intended for Edgar, which she was sure, though unpronounced, he had comprehended, dissented also from the motion.

    Camilla 2008

  • He would have said my last but his breath failed him; he stopt; he wanted her to seize his meaning unpronounced; and, though it came to her as a thunderbolt from heaven, its very horror helped her; she divined what he could not utter, by feeling what she could not hear.

    Camilla 2008

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