Unfinished

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1553.  in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Mary (1914), 150. The same … surseased and were lefte of vnfynysshed.

1590.  Shaks., Com. Err., III. ii. 173. The chaine vnfinish’d made me stay thus long.

1671.  Milton, Samson, 1027. That inward gifts Were left for hast unfinish’t.

1714.  R. Fiddes, Pract. Disc., I. 144. We haue so great a work lying unfinish’d upon our hands.

1797.  S. & Ht. Lee, Canterb. T. (1799), I. 373. The recital he was about to make remained unfinished.

1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., II. i. Here, another unfinished street already in ruins.

1887.  Bowen, Æneid, IV. 77. She … Speaks, then leaves unfinished the speech already begun.

  Hence Unfinishedness.

1887.  Pall Mall G., 22 Jan., 4/1. There is an appearance of hurry and unfinishedness about some [pictures].