unfallen

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ fallen

Adjective[edit]

unfallen (not comparable)

  1. Not having fallen; that has not experienced or suffered a fall.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 10:
      The unfallen world beyond time remains as a background to the figured beats of the heart in our world of serial progression.
    • 2009 March 13, Pico Iyer, “Heaven’s Gate”, in New York Times[1]:
      For me, in any case, Ladakh seemed a beautifully unfallen place next to the blue-glass shopping malls of modern Lhasa, the global village of pizza joints and guesthouses that is urban Nepal, or long-isolated Bhutan with its chic new hotels.