Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not trodden by the foot of man; unvisited.

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Examples

  • And though on this side it lay adjacent to the naïve and civil people of Comedy; on the further, in the shadow of those bleak, unfooted mountains, lurked unnatural horror and desolation, and cruelty beyond all telling.

    Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914

  • Shakespeare went to Italy, Denmark, Greece, Egypt, and to many a hitherto unfooted region of the imagination, for plot and character.

    Ponkapog Papers. 1904

  • It's against Canada to the north, and the empty county of Stevens to the east; south of it rushes the Columbia, with the naked horrible Big Bend beyond, and to its west rises a domain of unfooted mountains.

    The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories Owen Wister 1899

  • It was there, over that unfooted country, that Childe Roland rode to the Dark Tower.

    The Poetry Of Robert Browning 1874

  • Thought of songs whose flame-winged feet have trod the unfooted water-floor

    A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • Egypt, and to many a hitherto unfooted region of the imagination, for plot and character.

    Ponkapog Papers Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

  • Now, to see what banquet there is for the big of heart in the world's hot stress, take the view of Carinthia, to whom her brother's thoughtful little act of gentleness at the moment of the red-of-the-powder smoke was divinest bread and wine, when calamity hung around, with the future an unfooted wilderness, her powers untried, her husband her enemy.

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Now, to see what banquet there is for the big of heart in the world's hot stress, take the view of Carinthia, to whom her brother's thoughtful little act of gentleness at the moment of the red-of-the-powder smoke was divinest bread and wine, when calamity hung around, with the future an unfooted wilderness, her powers untried, her husband her enemy.

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • Now, to see what banquet there is for the big of heart in the world's hot stress, take the view of Carinthia, to whom her brother's thoughtful little act of gentleness at the moment of the red-of-the-powder smoke was divinest bread and wine, when calamity hung around, with the future an unfooted wilderness, her powers untried, her husband her enemy.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • For the air came pure and yielding to us over the unfooted sea; and at the basement of those fortress-cliffs the sea was dreaming in its caves; and far away, to east and south and west, soft light was blent with mist upon the surface of the shimmering waters.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

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