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unhandseled

unhandseled adjective: unused; untouched; pure.

Adjective

unhandseled (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) unused; untouched; pure
    • Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandseled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and berserkers, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson, On the American Scholar

Origin of unhandseled

From un- + handseled.

Questions about unhandseled

What does unhandseled mean?
Unhandseled means unused; untouched; pure.
What part of speech is unhandseled?
Unhandseled is an adjective.

Words near unhandseled in the dictionary

  1. unhandiness
  2. unhanding
  3. unhandleable
  4. unhandled
  5. unhands
  6. unhandseled
  7. unhandselled
  8. unhandsome
  9. unhandsomely
  10. unhandsomeness
  11. unhandsomer

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