Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not gathered together; not culled; not picked; not collected; specifically, noting printed sheets that have been folded, but not gathered in regular order for binding.

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  • adjective Not gathered.

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  • adjective not brought together in one place

Etymologies

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un- +‎ gathered

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Examples

  • You think: There will be some as yet ungathered anthology of American poetry.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • You think: There will be some as yet ungathered anthology of American poetry.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • You think: There will be some as yet ungathered anthology of American poetry.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • You think: There will be some as yet ungathered anthology of American poetry.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • You think: There will be some as yet ungathered anthology of American poetry.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • Artifacts that lie ungathered, gold unsalvaged and unsold, songs unheard and knits unraveled, tales unheard, unread, untold, a life lived lonely doesn't matter, unnoticed things all fall to dust, a darkened mirror's good as shattered -

    the Fort Hood shooting hradzka 2009

  • But is it not hard that my frailties of temper should be visited with such a penance — that, for a burst or two of natural passion, I should be doomed to see fade before me ungathered such a rich harvest of glory to God and honour to chivalry?

    The Talisman 2008

  • So he asked them to receive him alone, and hear what he had to say before they decided; and to this request the multitude, partly out of fear for their still ungathered vintage, were induced to consent.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • These are those clerks which serve the turn, whom they commonly entertain, and present to church livings, whilst in the meantime we that are University men, like so many hidebound calves in a pasture, tarry out our time, wither away as a flower ungathered in

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The ungathered credit-card offers and electric bills.

    The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

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