English

Adjective

unsunned ‎(not comparable)

1. Not having been exposed to the sun.
   • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act II, Scene 5,

     […] I thought her

     As chaste as unsunn’d snow.

   • 1878, John Addington Symonds, “In the Inn at Berchtesgaden” in Many Moods: A Volume of Verse, London: Smith, Elder & Co., p. 41,

     […] but day by day

     Life brings you nothing new or bright:

     The bloom of boyhood dies away;

     And youth, unsunned by youth’s delight,

     Yields place to manhood tame and drear—

     Blank year succeeding to blank year.

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde,

     Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr. Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house.

   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Basement,”

     This portion of basement was uncemented, low-ceiled, earthy, unsunned.

References

• unsunned in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913