unpassed

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ passed

Adjective[edit]

unpassed (not comparable)

  1. Not passed (in various senses).
    • 1824, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. III.[1]:
      The whole company kneeled on the shore and kissed the ground for joy, returning God thanks for the great mercy they had experienced during their long voyage through seas hitherto unpassed, and their now happy discovery of an unknown land.
    • 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion [] [2]:
      In 1870, Forster, author of the still unpassed bill, wrote that while the parsons were disputing, the children of the poor were "growing into savages."