Unsunned

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not penetrated or reached by sunlight; not exposed or accessible to the sun.

1607.  Tourneur, Rev. Trag., III. F 1. [I] did wish his impudent grace To meete her here in this vn-sunned-lodge.

1634.  Milton, Comus, 398. The unsun’d heaps Of Misers treasure.

1652.  Benlowes, Theoph., X. lxxvi. Why start’st? Unlock thy unsunn’d hoard.

1759.  Mason, Caractactus, 22. The unsunn’d silver of the mine.

1797.  Coleridge, Lime-tree Boxer, 14. That branchless ash, Unsunn’d and damp.

1806.  R. Mant, Poems, Country Gent., I. 32. Where … horror shaggs the unsunn’d precipice.

1860.  Flor. Nightingale, Nursing, ix. 49. The unsunned sides of narrow streets.

1885.  Jean Ingelow, Sleep of Sigismund, xxxviii. With name unsaid and fame unsunned He walks that was King Sigismund.

  b.  fig. Not made patent or public.

1809–14.  Wordsw., Excurs., VII. 281. With his cheerful throng Of open projects, and his inward hoard Of unsunned griefs.

1821.  J. Hodgson, in J. Raine, Mem. (1857), I. 347. He has promised to communicate to our Society some very curious and unsunned letters of Lord Dacre’s.

1862.  Athenæum, 30 Aug., 278. The unsunned historical treasures in the possession of the London Corporation.

  2.  Not touched or affected by the light or heat of the sun. Also fig.

1611.  Shaks., Cymb., II. v. 13. I thought her As Chaste, as vn-Sunn’d Snow.

1795.  Southey, Vis. Maid of Orleans, I. 311. As white as unsunn’d snow, Or as the spotless lily of the vale.

1820.  Ellen Fitzarthur, 54. Crystal drops of unsunned dew.

1843.  F. E. Paget, Warden of Berkingholt, 119. The unsunned purity … of the Master of Berkingholt Union.

  b.  Not colored or tanned by the sun.

1821.  Craig, Lect. Drawing, etc., vi. 344. The dark, yet clear, complexion of the Italians, which would ill suit on unsunned English faces.

1835.  Willis, Pencillings, II. xlix. 80. They venture to drop their jealous veils and ramble about in their unsunned beauty.

1882.  Century Mag., XXV. 103. A lady … [with] pure, unsunned complexion.

  fig.  1830.  Tennyson, Confess. Sensit. Mind, 140. In my morn of youth, The unsunn’d freshness of my strength.

  3.  Not lighted up by the sun. Also fig.

1840.  Lady C. Bury, Hist. of Flirt, xvi. Her still countenance unsunned by a smile.

a. 1864.  Hawthorne, Amer. Note-Bks. (1879), I. 36. All the near landscape lay unsunned.

1874.  Farrar, Christ, II. lix. 350. The unsunned outer darkness of miserable self-condemnation.