unstanched

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ stanched

Adjective[edit]

unstanched (not comparable)

  1. Not stanched.
    • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:
      RICHARD III (DUKE OF GLOUCESTER): Stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst York and young Rutland could not satisfy.
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
      GONZALO: I'll warrant him for drowning, though the ship were no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an unstanched wench.
    • 1837, William Harrison Ainsworth, Crichton, volume 2, page 174:
      Covered with dust and blood — the thick gore slowly dropping from his unstanched wounds, his head swollen, his right eye closed — the poor brute presented a deplorable spectacle.
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