Unkindled

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

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a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. 648. In this yere began a grudge to growe…, but it was keept vnkyndelyd duryng y^e lyfe of y^e duke.

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1535. Coverdale, Job xx. 26. An vnkyndled fyre shal consume him.

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1717. Pope, Iliad, XI. 239. The unkindled lightning in his hand he [sc. Jove] took.

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1742. Young, Nt. Th., I. 111. They live! they greatly live a life on earth Unkindl’d, unconceiv’d.

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1809. Coleridge, Friend, 161. My feelings … and imagination did not remain unkindled in this general conflagration.

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1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. xiii. The unkindled lamp stood on the table.

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Hence Unkindledness.

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1869. Abp. Benson, in Life (1901), 116. The yellow wax lights on the Altar stood in their irrational, legal, unkindledness.

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