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  • adjective Not preached.

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un- +‎ preached

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Examples

  • Had he but had the courage to repeat those stirring words, his hearers (so he said) could hardly have failed to have felt their force -- so unusual in such a place; but he had not the courage, and that sermon of the pavement remains unpreached.

    Obiter Dicta Second Series Augustine Birrell 1891

  • "Work; and therein have well-being," is the oldest of Gospels; unpreached, inarticulate, but ineradicable, and enduring forever.

    Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

  • Older than all preached Gospels was this unpreached, inarticulate, but ineradicable, forever-enduring Gospel: Work, and therein have wellbeing.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Older than all preached Gospels was this unpreached, inarticulate, but ineradicable, forever-enduring Gospel: Work, and therein have well-being.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

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