unrooved

English

Etymology

un- +‎ rooved

Adjective

unrooved (not comparable)

1. Rare form of unroofed.
   • 2001, Henry S. Maas, “The Uninvited”, in Poems New & Selected, Wallace Crescent Press, →ISBN, page 120:

     Cities harbour countless such pale frigates, ghost ships, anchorless, unrecorded cruisers who pass through ports unwelcomed & soon exit thankless—though glad to find most cities’ freedoms & complexities, including domiciles, unrooved, unmitred—not like homes which occupants must broom & furnish & then lock to keep outside such passersby as these, the uninvited.

   • 2002, Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., Was Greek Thought Religious?: On the Use and Abuse of Hellenism, from Rome to Romanticism, Palgrave, →ISBN, page 221:

     In fact, there is also a dedicatory statue for Achilles in the same unrooved courtyard.

   • 2016, Neil L. Norman, “Feet of Clay: An Archaeology of Huedan Elite Anxiety in the Era of Atlantic Trade”, in Jeffrey Fleisher, Neil Norman, editors, The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry, and Fear, Springer, →ISBN, page 115:

     On numerous trips to Abomey, friends and tour guides have noted that the statue of King Benhazin of Dahomey stands purposefully unrooved, so that both rain and sun will beat down on his head as an eternal reminder that it was he who lost the kingdom to French colonials.