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unwonted - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective
from The Century Dictionary.
unwonted sight; unwonted changes. unwonted to strangers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective adjective
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective customary or habitual ; unusual ; infrequent ; strange .adjective archaic Unused (to); unaccustomed (to) something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective
Etymologies
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From un- + wonted .
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Examples
Then, with the waywardness of action which thought and feeling often take in unwonted situations, she began to wonder whether it could be right to be there – not only for her, but for anybody.
The Old Helmet 1864
He recalled the unwonted agitation of Captain Vere and his excited exclamations so at variance with his normal manner.
Billy Budd 1924
Tertullian seems to have often found it necessary to coin unwonted forms of expression, or rather to invent an ecclesiastical nomenclature.
The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854
The same day shee was agen taken with a new kind of unwonted fitt, in which, after shee had bin awhile exercised with violence shee got her a sheet [?] & went up & downe, thrusting & pushing, here & there, & anon looking out at a window, & cryed
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792
My pulse rushed up in an unwonted manner, yet my rage mounted with it.
Chapter 26 2010
But the next instant, one of the boatmen, placidly lighting his pipe, was startled by an unwonted harshness in his captain's voice.
THE GREAT INTERROGATION 2010
But whensoever the call came, being so constituted, it was manifest that he should adapt, should adjust himself to the unwonted pressure of new conditions.
CHAPTER 7 2010
I to know that his willingness to talk was most unwonted and was where the liquor gave him away.
CHAPTER II 2010
In a moment, however, all the unwonted sensations were gone.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
And here on the crest, three hours afterward, he emerged, tired and sweaty, garments torn and face and hands scratched, but with sparkling eyes and an unwonted zestfulness of expression.
Chapter VIII 2010
bilby commented on the word unwonted
"She paused again, a little breathless with the unwonted length of her speech, and sat with her lips slightly parted and a deep blush on her cheeks."
- Edith Wharton, 'The Age of Innocence'.
September 20, 2009