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- adjective Not having been
caressed .
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Examples
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He touches previously uncaressed places in their minds, spaces once free of the tickle of thought or reflection.
Caroline Hagood: The 'Dead Poets Society' Guide to Teaching Caroline Hagood 2010
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To accurately describe the agony of this scene would be impossible; consternation for a moment held them spell-bound; horror was pictured in faces so long trained to conceal the workings of the mind, and for the first time the Fawn remained uncaressed in her father's arms.
Birch Bark Legends of Niagara Owahyah
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Nor friendless in the prison calls Uncomforted or uncaressed.
The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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Was his wife to go always unbelabored and uncaressed?
The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886
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Unknown to fame, uncaressed save by family affection, and, therefore, unspoilt, while writing was her delight, she kept it in complete subordination to the duties of life, which she performed with exemplary conscientiousness in the house of mourning as well as in the house of feasting.
Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866
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"Observe that man," said Duplessis, pointing towards a gentleman who had just entered; "the other day he was the popular hero -- now, in the excitement of threatened war, he is permitted to order his _bifteck_ uncongratulated, uncaressed; such is fame at Paris! here to-day and gone to-morrow."
The Parisians — Volume 10 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Observe that man," said Duplessis, pointing towards a gentleman who had just entered; "the other day he was the popular hero -- now, in the excitement of threatened war, he is permitted to order his bifteck uncongratulated, uncaressed; such is fame at Paris! here to-day and gone to-morrow."
The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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