Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not bereaved or bereft.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not bereft; not taken away.
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- adjective Not
bereft .
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Examples
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Take away from modern cities the paintings, the monuments, the music for the people, the museums and the parks which are not the gifts of Christian men and Christian municipalities, and in ninety cases out of a hundred you will leave them unbereft of so much as a well-shaped lamp-post
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The air was so still that the seeded dandelions stood day after day with their fairy globes unbereft of a single downy dart, like little puffs of vapour among the grasses.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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