Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not surrendered; not given up or delivered: as, an unsurrendered prize.

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  • adjective Not surrendered.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ surrendered

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Examples

  • We questioned whether or not a captured general still had the authority to issue orders to his former "unsurrendered" command.

    Blood Brothers A Medic's Sketch Book Colonel Eugene C. Jacobs

  • My undovishness, like my battered and vestigial but unsurrendered Christianity, constituted a refusal to give up, to deny and disown, my deepest and most fruitful self, my Shillington self — dimes for war stamps, nickels for the Sunday-school collection, and grown-ups maintaining order so that I might be free to play with my cartoons and Big Little Books.

    On Not Being a Dove John Updike 2009

  • All that is left unsurrendered will be cast into the fire.

    King of kings and Lord of lords Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • All that is left unsurrendered will be cast into the fire.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • Oh! ye three unsurrendered spires of mine; thou uncracked keel; and only god-bullied hull; thou firm deck, and haughty helm, and Pole-oriented prow,--death-glorious ship! must ye then perish, and without me?

    Moby Dick: Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Reader and Other Thoughts Abigail Nussbaum 2007

  • All that is left unsurrendered will be cast into the fire.

    Christ the King Fr Timothy Matkin 2005

  • All that is left unsurrendered will be cast into the fire.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2005

  • Oh! ye three unsurrendered spires of mine; thou uncracked keel; and only god-bullied hull; thou firm deck, and haughty helm, and Pole-pointed prow, — death — glorious ship! must ye then perish, and without me?

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Dying, moreover, with my sword, my duty and my defender, unsurrendered, as I had always hoped I would die, if die I must.

    The Dreamthief's Daughter Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2001

  • The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

    Union and Communion 1832-1905 2000

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