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Webster 1828 Edition


Unwept

UNWEPT'

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Adj.
Not lamented; not mourned. The profligate lives despised, and dies unwept.

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unwept

unwept

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Adjective

unwept (not comparable)

  1. Not wept.
    • 1894, Laurence Binyon, Lyric Poems‎
      Wish those nights not spent, / Long, unhappy nights, / Which in sighings went / Over lost delights? / Wish those tears unwept, / When you seemed unkind?
  2. Unmourned.
    • 1894, Edmund Vance Cooke, A Patch of Pansies‎
      Let fall thy tears! Let rise thy strain! / So canst thou never be among / Those heritors of man's disdain, / Th' unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

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