Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not worded; not spoken, told, or mentioned; also, not speaking; silent.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not worded; not put into words; unexpressed.
Etymologies
- un- + worded (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When Klara left him it turned something loose, a rant, an unworded voice that incited feelings so varied and confused and bled-together, so resistant to separation and scrutiny that he felt helpless in its surge.”
“If the pages had become unworded, if the story was now untold, then it meant I could start again.”
“By mutual unworded agreement, he and Stacey had lost touch with each other years ago.”
“All through Prime she prayed unworded prayers for him, and waited and listened for the first outcry of his loss.”
“And still the tireless love of woman watched by them -- and still unworded prayers went up that the”
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“There are states of mind that may be shared by two persons in presence of each other, which remain not only unworded, but _unthoughted_, if such a word may be coined for our special need.”
“There was something at the bottom of his soul which he could not bear to speak of, -- nay, which, as often as it reared itself through the dark waves of unworded consciousness into the breathing air of thought, he trod down as the ruined angels tread down a lost soul trying to come up out of the seething sea of torture.”
“Mrs. Rowles framed short, unworded prayers for guidance at this present crisis; and when she stood again in her sister-in-law's room her resolve was taken.”
“After a moment of silence, in which each made an unworded promise to each other, he said, Now we won't be sober any more.”
“Thenceforth there had been no communication between her and her father, save the unworded messages of soul to soul across whatever may divide them.”
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