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unpurged

unpurged adjective: not purged.

Adjective

unpurged (comparative more unpurged, superlative most unpurged)

  1. Not purged.
    • […] What, is Brutus sick,
      And will he steal out of his wholesome bed,
      To dare the vile contagion of the night
      And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
      To add unto his sickness?1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • […] whatever was created, needs
      To be sustaind and fed; of Elements
      The grosser feeds the purer, earth the sea,
      Earth and the Sea feed Air, the Air those Fires
      Ethereal, and as lowest first the Moon;
      Whence in her visage round those spots, unpurg’d
      Vapours not yet into her substance turnd.1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Examples of unpurged in a sentence

  • Kindly note that your trial is resumed, and further contempt will not be allowed to go unpurged.1909, E. W. Hornung, chapter 15, in Mr. Justice Raffles, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 229:
  • And even if the god had not spurred us to it, it were a wrong to leave the guilt unpurged, when one so noble, and he your king, had perished1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version of the Modern Stage, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC:

Forms of unpurged

comparativemore unpurged
superlativemost unpurged

Origin of unpurged

From un- + purged.

Questions about unpurged

What does unpurged mean?
Unpurged means not purged.
How do you use unpurged in a sentence?
Kindly note that your trial is resumed, and further contempt will not be allowed to go unpurged.
What part of speech is unpurged?
Unpurged is an adjective.

Words near unpurged in the dictionary

  1. unpurely
  2. unpureness
  3. unpurenesses
  4. unpurfled
  5. unpurgeable
  6. unpurged
  7. unpurifiable
  8. unpurified
  9. unpurifying
  10. unpuritan
  11. unpuritanical

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