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  • adjective Not quickened.

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un- +‎ quickened

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Examples

  • There were rumors that the unquickened ship was difficult to handle, though most blamed it on too much canvas and too little freeboard due to Uto's greed.

    Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

  • Before that, even Intellectual-Principle with all its loveliness did not stir the soul; for that beauty is dead until it take the light of The Good, and the soul lies supine, cold to all, unquickened even to Intellectual-Principle there before it.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • A bonny lad, even when unquickened by his laughter and his swift speech.

    Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz 1939

  • Niafer described them: she described them unsympathetically, but there was no doubt they were the images which Manuel had left unquickened upon

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

  • But while his thoughts were on the affair his fingers made him droll small images of ten of the image-makers, which he set aside unquickened.

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

  • In her presence he had felt an inward certainty of her ultimate goodness of heart; and it was nothing against this, that she had abandoned herself a moment, that day on the cliff, to the sentiment of relief at the ending of her bondage, of her years of starved sympathy and unquickened motherhood.

    The Woman in Black 1915

  • When I turn a corner in snowball days, the boys with bulging pockets see a head held high and a step unquickened, but I know that I cringe inwardly; and this private mortification I set down against old Polotzk, in my long score of grievances and shames.

    The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

  • When I turn a corner in snowball days, the boys with bulging pockets see a head held high and a step unquickened, but I know that I cringe inwardly; and this private mortification I set down against old

    The Promised Land 1912

  • When I turn a corner in snowball days, the boys with bulging pockets see a head held high and a step unquickened, but I know that I cringe inwardly; and this private mortification I set down against old Polotzk, in my long score of grievances and shames.

    The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912

  • They affirm that they believe in eternal torment; they confess all humanity is ripe for it; but their pulses are unquickened by the assertion or admission; they do _not_ believe in it.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

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