Unsung

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8 b. Cf. MHG. and G. ungesungen, Sw. osjungen.]

  1.  Not sung; not uttered by singing.

1422–61.  in Cal. Proc. in Chanc. Q. Eliz. (1827), I. Introd. 20. It wer better bell unrogne at þe sauntes tyme þan þe messe unsogne.

1539.  Abst. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1897), IV. 118. Geif it faillies to be left on-sung thre nychtis togidder.

1613.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. i. 8. Drawne by time … To sing those layes as yet unsung of any.

1843.  Carlyle, Past & Pr., III. v. Thy Epic, unsung in words, is written in huge characters on the face of this Planet.

1860.  Faber, Bethlehem, 100. Numberless unlanguaged and unsung Magnificats.

1889.  Stevenson, South Seas, III. vi. (1900), 265. [They] gave up the unsung remainder of their ballet.

  2.  Not celebrated in or by song.

1667.  Milton, P. L., VII. 253. Thus was the first Day…; Nor past uncelebrated, nor unsung By the Celestial Quires.

1697.  Dryden, Æneis, VII. 1014. Nor Œbalus, shalt thou be left unsung.

1701.  Addison, Let. from Italy, 14. Here … not a mountain rears its head unsung.

1743.  Young, Nt. Th., IV. 533. Why doubt we, then, the glorious truth to sing, Tho’ yet unsung, as deem’d, perhaps, too bold?

1805.  [see UNHONORED].

1828.  Carlyle, Misc. (1840), I. 343. A thousand battle-fields remain unsung.

1875.  F. I. Scudamore, Day-Dreams, 10. It is one of the unsung beauties of the earth.