Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not worded; not spoken, told, or mentioned; also, not speaking; silent.
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- adjective Not
worded ; not put into words;unexpressed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When Klara left him it turned something loose, a rant, an unworded voice that incited feelings so varied and confused and bled-together, so resistant to separation and scrutiny that he felt helpless in its surge.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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When Klara left him it turned something loose, a rant, an unworded voice that incited feelings so varied and confused and bled-together, so resistant to separation and scrutiny that he felt helpless in its surge.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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When Klara left him it turned something loose, a rant, an unworded voice that incited feelings so varied and confused and bled-together, so resistant to separation and scrutiny that he felt helpless in its surge.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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If the pages had become unworded, if the story was now untold, then it meant I could start again.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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If the pages had become unworded, if the story was now untold, then it meant I could start again.
The Affirmation 2007
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By mutual unworded agreement, he and Stacey had lost touch with each other years ago.
Couple Most Likely To Darcy, Lillian 2007
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All through Prime she prayed unworded prayers for him, and waited and listened for the first outcry of his loss.
The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992
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And still the tireless love of woman watched by them -- and still unworded prayers went up that the
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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There are states of mind that may be shared by two persons in presence of each other, which remain not only unworded, but _unthoughted_, if such a word may be coined for our special need.
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There was something at the bottom of his soul which he could not bear to speak of, -- nay, which, as often as it reared itself through the dark waves of unworded consciousness into the breathing air of thought, he trod down as the ruined angels tread down a lost soul trying to come up out of the seething sea of torture.
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