Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not essayed; unattempted.
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- adjective Not
essayed ;unattempted .
Etymologies
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Examples
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No effort was left unessayed to discover the retreat of the hopeless Anna.
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“Well, but,” interrupted he, “be not desperate; you have yet the third topic unessayed.”
Cecilia 2008
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If her husband cannot play the man, some other shall, they will leave no remedies unessayed, and thereupon the good man grows jealous; I could give an instance, but be it as it is.
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Shall I not now see (since I must forever be unhappy, if I marry her, and leave any trial unessayed) what I can make of her love, and her newly-raised confidence? —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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But I hope that you do not think me so perverse, and so obstinate, as to have left till now any means unessayed which I thought likely to move my friends in my favour.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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He leaves no expedient unessayed to relieve them, and he is persuaded Congress and the several States are doing everything in their power for the same purpose.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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He leaves no expedient unessayed to relieve them, and he is persuaded Congress and the several States are doing everything in their power for the same purpose.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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He leaves no expedient unessayed to relieve them, and he is persuaded Congress and the several States are doing everything in their power for the same purpose.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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He leaves no expedient unessayed to relieve them, and he is persuaded Congress and the several States are doing everything in their power for the same purpose.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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No means were left unessayed to steel him against her sway.
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