Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not fleshed; not seasoned to blood; untried: as, an unfleshed hound; unfleshed valor.
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- adjective Having no
flesh
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most importantly, I have given myself permission to write a first draft, to have inconsistencies, unfleshed themes and unresolved issues, trusting that I can fix all of this later.
INTERVIEW: M Rickert 2009
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It was as though time had been annihilated for me; so that a year was no more to my unfleshed spirit, than is a moment to an earth-bound soul.
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It is but repenting and mortifying for all at once; for I am sure of victory, as I am that I now live, let him be ever so skillful a swordsman; since, besides that I am no unfleshed novice, this is a sport that, when provoked to it, I love as well as my food.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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A sponge may be so held as to remind one of the unfleshed face of the skeleton, and the meat of an
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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The unfleshed backbone and withers stood up painfully and she counted the ribs one by one.
Alcatraz Max Brand 1918
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It was as though time had been annihilated for me; so that a year was no more to my unfleshed spirit, than is a moment to an earth-bound soul.
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I have thirteen arrows yet, and if one of them fly unfleshed, then, by the twang of string!
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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I have thirteen arrows yet, and if one of them fly unfleshed, then, by the twang of string!
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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I have thirteen arrows yet, and if one of them fly unfleshed, then, by the twang of string!
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Probably she had learned through unpleasant hushed-up experiences, through seeing skeletons unfleshed by Peter stalk into the family cupboard.
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