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  • adjective Not having been brightened.

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un- +‎ brightened

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Examples

  • With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:

    Work without Hope 1927

  • Then the plaid kilted dress with the black velvet monkey jacket that Pinky had worn when she spoke her first piece at the age of seven -- well, these were things that even the rapacious eye of Miz 'Merz (by-the-day) passed by unbrightened by covetousness.

    Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

  • With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:

    Poems of Coleridge Arthur Symons 1905

  • Once in a while it dimly comes back to me that, in a past existence unbrightened by Nell Van Buren and Phyllis Rivers, I came to

    The Chauffeur and the Chaperon Karl Anderson 1901

  • The solemn night moved on, a night of black vapours; the pageant of the Old Year's deathbed was unbrightened by so much as a single star.

    Stories by English Authors: London (Selected by Scribners) Israel Zangwill 1895

  • Only the cold spiritual firmament, unlit by any guiding stars, unbrightened by the flood of human day, and unshadowed by the veils of human night, still bends above his head in awful changelessness, and still his weary feet draw closer to the portals of the West.

    Beatrice Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • I, to whom friendship has since been like sunlight and like sleep, left school unbrightened and unrefreshed by commerce with

    Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888

  • Preux's egoism is unbrightened by a single ray of tender abnegation, or a single touch of the sweet humility of devoted passion.

    Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

  • Save of storm-winds lies unbrightened by thy breath:

    Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • There is all the dreary routine of the solitary life unbrightened by that companionship which is all the world to the one who is left behind.

    The Marriage of Elinor 1862

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