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unlessen

unlessen conjunction: unless.

Conjunction

unlessen

  1. (US, dialectal) unless
    • I don't 'low to let him lay in no jail-house, unlessen he's got a right ter be thar. What's he charged with?1913, Charles Neville Buck, The Call of the Cumberlands

Origin of unlessen

Perhaps from unless and. Compare if'n.

Questions about unlessen

What does unlessen mean?
Unlessen means unless.
What part of speech is unlessen?
Unlessen is a conjunction.

Words near unlessen in the dictionary

  1. unlensed
  2. unlent
  3. unlesioned
  4. unless
  5. unlesse
  6. unlessen
  7. unlessened
  8. unlessening
  9. unlessoned
  10. unlesss
  11. unlet

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