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  1. adj. not anointed

Etymologies

  1. un- +‎ anointed (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “A five-time nominee, Carell has yet to win for his career-making role, and it would be a shame to see him go unanointed for bringing so much humanity and sympathy to a seemingly one-dimensional doofus.”

    Emmys: TVGuide.com's Picks for Lead Actor in a Comedy

  • “Yet now and then some complacent blind idiot says, “You unanointed are coarse clay and useless; you are not as we, the regenerators of the world; go, bury yourselves elsewhere, for we cannot take the responsibility of recommending idlers and sinners to the yearning mercy of Heaven.””

    Mark Twain: A Biography

  • “It never fails to make an impression on the unanointed.”

    outfoxed Diary Entry

  • “He knew his fellow-creatures better than most men; knew that inner life which so seldom unfolds itself to unanointed* eyes.”

    The Awakening

  • “Who follows me from here must resign himself that his bones will go unanointed.”

    Conan The Magnificent

  • “She remembered one who died there suddenly, and without remedy, -- her father, unabsolved and unanointed, dying in fear and torment, in a moment when none anticipated death.”

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860

  • “The Enchanted Isles wear no enchantment to unanointed vision; their skies of Paradise are fog, their angels Harpies, perchance, or harsh-throated Sirens.”

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862

  • “But, as S. Augustine remarks, [249] the words first quoted are due to the blind man as yet unanointed -- viz., not yet perfectly illumined -- and hence they are not valid; though they might be true if understood of a sinner precisely as such, and in this sense, too, his prayer is said to be "an abomination.”

    On Prayer and The Contemplative Life

  • “In the gloom they knelt before this unanointed Priest of Jehovah.”

    The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea

  • “Yet now and then some complacent blind idiot says, "You unanointed are coarse clay and useless; you are not as we, the regenerators of the world; go, bury yourselves elsewhere, for we cannot take the responsibility of recommending idlers and sinners to the yearning mercy of Heaven.”

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete

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