unsunned

unsunned

English

Etymology

un- +‎ sunned

Adjective

unsunned (not comparable)

1. Not having been exposed to the sun.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene v]:

     […] I thought her
     As chaste as unsunn’d snow.

   • 1878, John Addington Symonds, “In the Inn at Berchtesgaden” in Many Moods: A Volume of Verse, London: Smith, Elder & Co., p. 41,

     […] but day by day

     Life brings you nothing new or bright:

     The bloom of boyhood dies away;

     And youth, unsunned by youth’s delight,

     Yields place to manhood tame and drear—

     Blank year succeeding to blank year.

   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., OCLC 762755901:

     Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr. Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house.

   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Basement,”

     This portion of basement was uncemented, low-ceiled, earthy, unsunned.