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  • adjective Not silenced.

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  • adjective not silenced

Etymologies

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un- +‎ silenced

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Examples

  • The unsilenced weapon bucked in his hand as Harvath let loose with a deafening three-round volley.

    Blowback Brad Thor 2005

  • Hence my example of looking for unsilenced vertebrae in mushrooms would be more relevant - except that he would almost certainly be ignorant enough to put fungi in with plants, as the nature of that distinction was an even later scientific discovery than the rather obvious fact to many people at any rate! that plants are living things.

    A useful link to use when confronted with the circularity argument - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • The unsilenced weapon bucked in his hand as Harvath let loose with a deafening three-round volley.

    Blowback Brad Thor 2005

  • This is what worries him the most—if the police start shooting or if the Digger has to shoot with the unsilenced pistols Tye might wake up from the sound.

    THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP JEFFERY DEAVER 2003

  • Then: the stunning crack of the single, unsilenced gunshot.

    THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP JEFFERY DEAVER 2003

  • A burst from the unsilenced weapon would awaken the entire compound.

    Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991

  • He got in the backseat, checking out the driver, kept his hand in his pocket around the grip of the now-unsilenced pistol.

    Manhattan Is My Beat Deaver, Jeffery 1989

  • Nay -- here we have the heart unsilenced yet unfierce, the gentle, not the

    Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

  • "Everything is right" -- will continue false as long as there shall be upon the earth a single conscience unsilenced, as long as there shall be in a single heart

    The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Ernest Naville

  • To take but one instance more fully: Observe the fierce and as yet unsilenced dispute which the proposal for the introduction of a binding and universal pact of non-aggression among the nations of Europe has aroused among the avowed supporters of the League of Nations — a League so auspiciously welcomed for the ideal that prompted its birth, yet now so utterly inadequate in the actual principles that underlie its present-day structure and working.

    Bahá’í Administration 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

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