Definitions
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- adjective Not having been
hushed ;unsilenced .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So the noise from the terrace sounded clearly; a heavy clatter, like ironwork being unloaded; and Macedonian voices, unhushed as they always are, but very sorrowful.
The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972
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But this of course could not go on for long, and you should have heard it when it unhushed its breathing.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 Various
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With the hand-clasp strong, and the unhushed song,
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On our friend's part I mean, after his admission and while still in the hall, the sense of the general shining immediacy, of the still unhushed clamour of the shock, was perhaps stronger than he had ever known it.
The Finer Grain Henry James 1879
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Yet unhushed are the singers 'voices, nor yet the harp-strings cease
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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