Definitions

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  • adjective Not saved; unredeemed.
  • adjective computing Not saved (stored in a file).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell

Etymologies

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un- +‎ saved

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Examples

  • But we must recall that there will be some out there who will give this book into the hands of their 'unsaved' kin or friends.

    Vanish by Tom Pawlik: Over the Top? nissa_amas_katoj 2009

  • And in private, many of the folks I knew would talk about Jews, Catholics, other "unsaved" protestants, as all headed for hell.

    Steve Anderson: A Modest Proposal: Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood 2008

  • Inside the school, some evangelical kids were known to be concerned about their "unsaved" classmates, and many of the believers were easily distinguishable by the Bibles they carried to school.

    The Making Of A Martyr 2008

  • By the way, for the record, NO genuine Christian goes around "battling and conquering" others because they are "'unsaved', bad, [or] stupid".

    Dawkins' deterministic idea 2006

  • It's the whole notion of battling and conquering others because they are "unsaved", bad, stupid, or otherwise less than a particular in-group that has to go.

    Dawkins' deterministic idea 2006

  • Is hell a fiery inferno of eternal punishment and suffering reserved for those who are "unsaved"?

    Father John Bakas: A View To Heaven And Hell 2008

  • From the "unsaved" the number wants that first tremulous inquiry on the prayer line so that the name may go into the churning stomach of the computer, enter, in the blinking of an eye, the mass-mail prison from which there is no parole.

    Church Going Hardwick, Elizabeth 1988

  • And outside of the demon-possessed folks at the mental hospital who fling their own excrement up your nose, Atheists are the worst kind of unsaved trash a decent Christian will ever have the displeasure of rebuking.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • Sure, many an "unsaved" soul has seen the Christmas tree, the holly, the stockings, and the virgin/manger nativity, and has observed that this is nothing more than a rebranding of Rome's then-ancient pagan myth.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • It was held to strictly and I knew very few folks who talked like that except my "unsaved" neighbors, some of whom were unsaved because they were Catholic or Lutheran or liberal Presbyterians.

    Jesus Creed 2009

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