ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not expressed in words.
1860. Mrs. C. Clive, Why Paul Ferroll killed his Wife, iii. With all this unworded she accosted him.
1860. [see UNTHOUGHTED].
1865. Mrs. Whitney, Gayworthys, xxi. The unworded intercourse between this husband and wife.
1898. Meredith, Poems, II. 132. This lone-laid wife was moved to feel Unworded things and old To her pained heart appeal.
2. Lacking words; silent. rare–1.
1886. R. W. Gilder, Lyrics, 116. So, still unworded, save in memory mute, Rest thou, sweet hour of viol and of lute.
