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  • verb Present participle of unrealize.

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Examples

  • The first days of the war were full of a kind of unrealizing confidence, not boastful or fatuous, yet as different as possible from the clear-headed tenacity of purpose that the experience of the next few months was to develop.

    Fighting France 1915

  • The first days of the war were full of a kind of unrealizing confidence, not boastful or fatuous, yet as different as possible from the clear-headed tenacity of purpose that the experience of the next few months was to develop.

    Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Edith Wharton 1899

  • Shay was afraid that unrealizing that she wanted him was going to be just as impossible.

    Crave Laura J. Burns 2010

  • MAYVAR: He can be cruel, but he is capable of love all unrealizing.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • Those possessed of evil spirits, the blind, the soul sick, the unrealizing, hardened woman at the well, the beautiful, loving

    Home Missions in Action Edith H. Allen

  • "She's a Plummer," sighed Aunt Olivia, inwardly, unrealizing her own

    Rebecca Mary Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • And in those last few days he had transferred, all unknown to himself or the other man, a measure of the gentility and chivalry that were his birthright, for, unrealizing, Billy Byrne was patterning himself after the man he had hated and had come to love.

    The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • In a boyish way, and all unrealizing, he loved the child with a sort of love that would one day flower out as an absorbing passion.

    Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • Her girlhood was ended -- wondering, hovering, unrealizing girlhood.

    The World for Sale, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Her girlhood was ended -- wondering, hovering, unrealizing girlhood.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

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