unpent

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ pent. Compare Old English onpennad (unpent, open).

Adjective[edit]

unpent (comparative more unpent, superlative most unpent)

  1. Not pent or pent up, unconfined, released.
    • 1831, William Stewart Rose, Orlando Furioso[1]:
      Not with the rage with which this whirlwind blows, Joust warring winds, north, south, and east, unpent.
    • 1911, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories[2]:
      And there, unpent by mountains, one saw the sky—the sky, not such a disc as one saw it here, but an arch of immeasurable blue, a deep of deeps in which the circling stars were floating...

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