Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not inclosed in or provided with a tent or tents: as, an untented army.
- Having no tents erected upon it: as, an untented field.
- Not having a medical tent applied; hence, not having the pain lessened.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no tent or tents, as a soldier or a field.
- adjective Not tended; not dressed. See 4th
tent .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
untent .
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Examples
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All that night of Hallowe'en, a Partridge drummed near my untented couch on the balsam boughs.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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Perilous is such a slumber in the twilight all untented.
India's Love Lyrics Laurence Hope 1884
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Remember, Lady Bothwell, you too have a death-bed to look forward to; Your soul may -- all human souls must -- feel the awe of facing the judgment-seat, with the wounds of an untented conscience, raw, and rankling -- what thought would it be then that should whisper, "I have given no mercy, how then shall I ask it?"'
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror Walter Scott 1801
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In the agony agony of his paflion with his daughter, he fays (in the modern editions) •* Th 'untented woundings of a Father's curfe Pierce every fenfe about thee.
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Remember, Lady Bothwell, you too have a death-bed to look forward to; your soul may, all human souls must, feel the awe of facing the judgment seat, with the wounds of an untented conscience, raw, and rankling — what thought would it be then that should whisper, ‘I have given no mercy, how then shall I ask it?’”
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Remember, Lady Bothwell, you too have a death-bed to look forward to; your soul may, all human souls must, feel the awe of facing the judgment seat, with the wounds of an untented conscience, raw, and rankling — what thought would it be then that should whisper, ‘I have given no mercy, how then shall I ask it?’”
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Remember, Lady Bothwell, you too have a death-bed to look forward to; your soul may, all human souls must, feel the awe of facing the judgment seat, with the wounds of an untented conscience, raw, and rankling -- what thought would it be then that should whisper, 'I have given no mercy, how then shall I ask it?'"
Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801
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