(ppl.) a. [UN-1 8, 9.] Not provided with a vent or outlet; not allowed to issue.
[c. 1618. Fletcher, Mad Lover, II. i. Things like our selves, as sensual, vain, unvented Bubbles, and breaths of air.
1624. Quarles, Job Militant, xvi. 26. I’me full, and I must speake, Or, like vnuented vessels, I must breake. Ibid. (1630–40), Funeral Elegies, xviii. The false teare, that’s forc’d, or slides by Art,… Or dares (unvented) come to composition.
1866. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, xi. The company … perhaps felt the more, as they seated themselves with an expectation unvented by utterance.
