Definitions
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- adjective Not
sown .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a piece of ground) not have a crop sown on it
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Examples
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The most extreme followers of this path would wear the most rudimentary, unsown clothes and basic sandals, and their only possession would be a wooden begging bowl.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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Note 133: PS 85; Proto-Bantu * - céd - "clean"; PNECB "land readied for planting"; PR "prepared but unsown land"; e.g.,
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The most extreme followers of this path would wear the most rudimentary, unsown clothes and basic sandals, and their only possession would be a wooden begging bowl.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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The most extreme followers of this path would wear the most rudimentary, unsown clothes and basic sandals, and their only possession would be a wooden begging bowl.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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This year, in Sitapur district, outside the state capital of Lucknow, swathes of farmland have been left unsown because of the drought.
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This year, in Sitapur district, outside state capital Lucknow, vast swathes of farmland have been left unsown with only patches of grass and shrubs visible as many farmers decided not to plant any crop because of truant rains.
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I remember the devotion of your youth, the love of your betrothal, how you were willing to follow me into the desert, through an unknown, unsown land.
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So they upped anchor and headed south, leaving their wooden crosses, which soon rotted, their unsown fields, and their cattle.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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After this the earth shoots up from the sea, and it is green and fair, and the fields bear unsown, and gods and men shall be alive again, and sit in fair halls, and talk of old tales and the tidings that happened aforetime.
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The three began at once to tell the astonished mother all their charming plans, and the family party gave themselves up to the pleasure of chatting and weaving a romance, in which it is so pleasant to enjoy future happiness, and to store the unsown harvest.
Two Poets 2007
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