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unenquired

unenquired adjective: not enquired (into, after, etc.).

Adjective

unenquired (not comparable)

  1. Not enquired (into, after, etc.).
    • There shall not a sin be left unenquired after, or concealed when found; for the first step towards heaven is to see and lament the near approaches we have made to Hell.1728, Saint Augustine (of Hippo), Pious Breathings, page 399
    • The chapels of the Calvinists would have been closed, but private opinion would have remained unenquired into, and the Protestants of Holland and Flanders would have been in the same position as the Catholics in England.1856, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volume 11, page 18

Origin of unenquired

From un- + enquired.

Questions about unenquired

What does unenquired mean?
Unenquired means not enquired (into, after, etc.).
What part of speech is unenquired?
Unenquired is an adjective.

Words near unenquired in the dictionary

  1. unenmeshed
  2. unenmity
  3. unennobled
  4. unennobling
  5. unenounced
  6. unenquired
  7. unenquiring
  8. unenquiringly
  9. unenraged
  10. unenraptured
  11. unenrichable

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