unpenetrated
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un- + penetrated
Adjective[edit]
unpenetrated (not comparable)
- Not penetrated.
- 1831, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus[1]:
- Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and battle with innumerable wolves, and did not entirely forbear strong liquor, rioting, and even theft; whom, notwithstanding, the peaceful Sower will follow, and, as he cuts the boundless harvest, bless."
- 1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes[2]:
- Both in Central America and in Orinoco there yet are many unpenetrated forests which are almost entirely composed of wild cacao-trees.
- 1910, Claud Field, Mystics and Saints of Islam[3]:
- "We asked him to explain more precisely the situation of this fountain, and he said: 'You are doubtless aware that perpetual darkness surrounds the pole unpenetrated by any ray of light till God permits.