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- adjective Not
visionary .
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un- + visionary
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Examples
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Hobbits were sensible, if unvisionary; elves were austere and aloof; orcs were unreservedly evil.
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On the contrary, not only the highest, but the most consistent results have been attained in art by men in whom the faculty of vision, however strong, was subordinate to that of deliberative design, and tranquillised by a measured, continual, not feverish, but affectionate, observance of the quite unvisionary facts of the surrounding world.
Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
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