unuplifted

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ uplifted

Adjective[edit]

unuplifted (not comparable)

  1. (poetic or archaic) Not uplifted; downcast.
    • 1825, John Wilson, Poems, volume 2, page 226:
      Through all the long day's stillness, lone and deep,
      Sitting, unwearied as the gladsome brook,
      That sings along with many a frolic leap,
      While earnestly his unuplifted look
      Lives on the yellow page of some old fairy book.
    • 1875, William Wordsworth, The Inner Vision:
      Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
      To pace the ground, if path be there or none,
      While a fair region round the traveller lies
      Which he forbears again to look upon;
    • 2014, Henry S. Salt, The Story of Aeneas: Virgil's Aeneid Translated Into English Verse, →ISBN, page 135:
      But she, averse, with unuplifted eyes,
      Heeded no more his speech than if she stood
      Carven of flint or hard Marpesian stone