Definitions

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  • adjective Not having had adventures.
  • adjective unexplored

Etymologies

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un- +‎ adventured

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Examples

  • But that still region where the more timid life has nestled undaring, unadventured, shrinking from the struggle and the strife above, recoiling from the seething foulness below -- what have we in this dreamland inhabited by woman?

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • After nine years of servitude to the limitations of dramatic construction, limitations he was wont to relieve, as his friend James Harris tells us, by "pleasantly though perhaps rather freely" _damning the man who invented fifth acts_, Fielding was now soon to discover his freedom in the spacious, hitherto unadventured, regions of prose fiction.

    Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

  • Strickland seemed to bear in his heart strange harmonies and unadventured patterns, and I foresaw for him an end of torture and despair.

    Moon and Sixpence 1919

  • After nine years of servitude to the limitations of dramatic construction, limitations he was wont to relieve, as his friend James Harris tells us, by “pleasantly though perhaps rather freely” damning the man who invented fifth acts, Fielding was now soon to discover his freedom in the spacious, hitherto unadventured, regions of prose fiction.

    Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

  • Sovereign Lord, than I perceive you do; for whose defence my treasure shall not be hidden, nor my person shall not be unadventured.

    Henry VIII. 1908

  • But to her unadventured soul the difficulties seemed beyond all surmounting.

    The Terrible Twins Edgar Jepson 1900

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