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Webster 1828 Edition


Unreclaimed

UNRECLA'IMED.

a.
1.
Not reclaimed; not brought to a domestic state; not tamed; as a wild beast unreclaimed.
2.
Not reformed; not called back from vice to virtue.

Definition 2024


unreclaimed

unreclaimed

English

Adjective

unreclaimed (comparative more unreclaimed, superlative most unreclaimed)

  1. Not reclaimed.
    • 1858, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858:
      It is a creek only by courtesy or an Americanism, at the present day; but when those miles of fertile fields upon the north were unreclaimed, the dank herbage hindered evaporation, and Easton's Pond was fed by unfailing streams.
    • 1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo:
      Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive.