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  • adjective Not having been killed.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ killed

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Examples

  • It may be too late for one's own redemption (a strict reading of the New Testament suggests it's never too late even for that), but it's certainly never too late for the sake of the world and of those who remain unkilled.

    Archive 2007-06-01 David 2007

  • It may be too late for one's own redemption (a strict reading of the New Testament suggests it's never too late even for that), but it's certainly never too late for the sake of the world and of those who remain unkilled.

    Stop the killing David 2007

  • Not quite true: he guards monsters bound beneath the earth, monsters unkilled by gods and heroes.

    On the Edge of Breathing « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • But he had seen times of plenty, too, when the meat spoiled on their hands, and the dogs were fat and worthless with overeating -- times when they let the game go unkilled, and the women were fertile, and the lodges were cluttered with sprawling men-children and women-children.

    THE LAW OF LIFE 2010

  • But he had seen times of plenty, too, when the meat spoiled on their hands, and the dogs were fat and worthless with overeating -- times when they let the game go unkilled, and the women were fertile, and the lodges were cluttered with sprawling men-children and women-children.

    THE LAW OF LIFE 2010

  • There are unperformed rites and something left wounded and unkilled.

    Prologue 2010

  • Preventing the emergence of resistant strains of bacteria is important work, but the insight that Darwinism brings to the problem – the unkilled ones eventually outnumber the killed ones – is of no help.

    The Panda's Thumb: Medicine and Evolution Archives 2010

  • But after my visit to the oral surgeon today, I've slept off all the anaesthesia and eschewed the prescription painkiller, and I'm back in the world of full human awareness, including the awareness of unkilled pain, which is kind of the way I like to think of life itself.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • Preventing the emergence of resistant strains of bacteria is important work, but the insight that Darwinism brings to the problem — the unkilled ones eventually outnumber the killed ones — is of no help.

    The Addiction of Egnorance - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Edit the insight that Darwinism brings to the problem — the unkilled ones eventually outnumber the killed ones — is of no help.

    Egnor just doesn't know when to quit - The Panda's Thumb 2007

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