Definitions

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  • adjective Not let (not in temporary possession in return for rent)

Etymologies

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un- +‎ let

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Examples

  • A great big place, apparently unlet and empty, surrounded by an enormous wall, with one surly man to guard the place - and he has a lot of letters!

    Separate Douglas Light 2010

  • He said: There are an enormous number of apartments in the Bay at the moment which are unlet and unoccupied.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • He said: There are an enormous number of apartments in the Bay at the moment which are unlet and unoccupied.

    Slumming it 2008

  • While my fellow-travellers and I were discussing how to pass the night and so much of the next day as must intervene before the jovial blacksmith and the jovial wheelwright would be in a condition to go out on the morass and mend the coach, an honest man stepped forth from the crowd and proposed his unlet floor of two rooms, with supper of eggs and bacon, ale and punch.

    The Holly-Tree 2007

  • Now, miserable black dwellings, a black canal, and sick black towers of chimneys; now, a trim garden, where the flowers were bright and fair; now, a wilderness of hideous altars all a-blaze; now, the water meadows with their fairy rings; now, the mangy patch of unlet building ground outside the stagnant town, with the larger ring where the

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • While my fellow-travellers and I were discussing how to pass the night and so much of the next day as must intervene before the jovial blacksmith and the jovial wheelwright would be in a condition to go out on the morass and mend the coach, an honest man stepped forth from the crowd and proposed his unlet floor of two rooms, with supper of eggs and bacon, ale and punch.

    The Holly-Tree 2007

  • Weeks had dragged by, and the house was still unlet.

    The Way Home 2003

  • What had been a group of pious unlet - tered laymen had by 1215 become an intransigeant sect claiming to be the one true apostolic church and denouncing the Roman church in the language of the

    HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968

  • The only real difficulty was for unlet tered yeomen to remember what the symbols on the gauges stood for-and this, indeed, was no more complicated a science than heraldry, which any hero-worshiping lad could rattle off in detail.

    The High Crusade Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1960

  • I have rooms in Piccadilly, and a farm (unlet) in Kent.

    Sagittulae, Random Verses Edward Woodley Bowling

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