Unjust to Usages

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

unjust, adj. (11)

    DSA 1.148 12 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...an independence of friends, so that not the unjust wishes of those who love us shall impair our freedom...
    MN 1.198 23 Statements of the infinite are usually felt to be unjust to the finite...
    YA 1.387 3 It is only their dislike of the pretender, which makes men sometimes unjust to the accomplished man.
    Hist 2.30 22 [Prometheus] stands between the unjust justice of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals...
    Comp 2.111 20 ...all unjust accumulations of property and power, are avenged in the same manner.
    NMW 4.253 22 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...
    CbW 6.276 9 If you deal generously, the other, though selfish and unjust, will...deal truly with you.
    EWI 11.108 26 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed [Thomas Clarkson' s] sentiment...that the slave-trade was as impolitic as it was unjust;...
    TPar 11.289 27 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...unjust wars...it is a hypocrisy...
    ACiv 11.307 10 ...[Slavery] will be unjust and violent to the end of the world.
    Let 12.396 18 ...it would be unjust not to remind our younger friends that whilst this aspiration [to improve society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it does not remain a detached object...

unjust, n. (5)

    Hist 2.35 18 We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful, by fighting down the unjust and sensual.
    PPh 4.73 17 ...[Socrates] thought not any evil happened to men of such a magnitude as false opinion respecting the just and unjust.
    MoS 4.183 20 [The man of thought] is content with just and unjust...
    HDC 11.47 6 Here [in the town-meeting] the rich gave counsel, but the poor also; and moreover, the just and the unjust.
    FSLN 11.239 9 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close it begets itself an offspring...and...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...

unjustly, adj. (1)

    NR 3.228 20 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected; the men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one! what heart-drawings I feel to thee!...

unjustly, adv. (1)

    Lov1 2.174 2 I have been told that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations.

unkind, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.357 7 [Thoreau said] God could not be unkind to me if he should try.

unkindness, n. (1)

    HDC 11.45 26 The disputes between that forbearing man [John Winthrop] and the deputies are like the quarrels of girls, so much do they turn into complaints of unkindness, and end in such loving reconciliations.

unknown, adj. (47)

    Nat 1.10 27 The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown.
    AmS 1.82 17 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...
    MR 1.227 14 ...some sources of human instruction are almost unnamed and unknown among us;...
    LT 1.267 20 What further relations we sustain...is now unknown.
    Tran 1.331 26 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    Tran 1.343 12 ...[Transcendentalists] will own...that there are...persons whose faces are perhaps unknown to them, but whose fame and spirit have penetrated their solitude...
    YA 1.367 6 Public gardens, on the scale of such plantations in Europe and Asia, are now unknown to us.
    YA 1.377 23 Trade was the strong man that...raised a new and unknown power in [Feudalism's] place.
    SL 2.157 20 Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
    Cir 2.306 15 The last chamber, the last closet, [every man] must feel was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable.
    Chr1 3.112 13 ...there is a Greek verse which runs, The Gods are to each other not unknown./
    UGM 4.9 2 ...the makers of tools;...the musician,--severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    UGM 4.33 12 A new quality of mind...publishes itself by unknown methods...
    ShP 4.196 16 There was no literature for the million [in Shakespeare's day]. The universal reading, the cheap press, were unknown.
    ET1 5.15 8 Carlyle was...as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London.
    ET8 5.127 16 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers, who...have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors. The French say, gay conversation is unknown in their island.
    ET14 5.243 16 Locke, to whom the meaning of ideas was unknown, became the type of philosophy [in England]...
    CbW 6.245 5 ...so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
    CbW 6.246 13 ...not by strength of ours, or of the old sayings, but only on strength of his own, unknown to us or to any, [the youth] must stand or fall.
    Elo1 7.67 3 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits, long unknown to themselves...who now hear their own native language for the first time...
    Farm 7.153 13 ...[the farmer] would not shine in palaces; he is absolutely unknown and inadmissible therein;...
    WD 7.169 13 The old Sabbath...white with the religions of unknown thousands of years, when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    Cour 7.272 10 Poetry and eloquence catch the hint [of courage], and soar to a pitch unknown before.
    Suc 7.306 1 Send a deep man into any town, and he will find another deep man there, unknown hitherto to his neighbors.
    PI 8.38 4 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined...in mean employments,--and victims of these; and the nobler powers untried, unknown.
    PI 8.40 16 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him...
    Elo2 8.111 21 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic...all are invisible and unknown.
    QO 8.187 15 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... have been warbled and babbled between nurses and children for unknown thousands of years.
    Dem1 10.8 11 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man out of a quite unknown intelligence.
    Dem1 10.24 13 They who love [occult facts] say they are to reveal to us a world of unknown, unsuspected truths.
    Dem1 10.27 12 Willingly I too say, Hail! to the unknown awful powers which transcend the ken of the understanding.
    Chr2 10.111 24 ...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown authors...
    Edc1 10.138 5 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil, the unknown possibilities of his nature, to a neat and safe uniformity...
    Plu 10.306 18 The central fact is the superhuman intelligence, pouring into us from its unknown fountain...
    Plu 10.311 12 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca, who...was for many years his contemporary, though...their writings were perhaps unknown to each other.
    MMEm 10.425 11 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle...
    SlHr 10.444 11 ...was it only the lot of excellence, that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone, as it were, unknown to those who were his contemporaries and familiars?
    SlHr 10.446 29 No art or practice of the farm was unknown to [Samuel Hoar]...
    Carl 10.490 19 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown...
    HDC 11.35 21 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be laborious to all...
    HDC 11.83 11 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown.
    LVB 11.89 16 ...the circumstance that my name will be utterly unknown to you [Van Buren] will only give the fairer chance to your equitable construction of what I have to say.
    ALin 11.330 26 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly.
    PLT 12.33 11 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains...
    II 12.65 3 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains...
    II 12.80 16 We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought.
    Milt1 12.261 4 ...soaring into unattempted strains, [Milton] made [English] capable of an unknown majesty...

Unknown Centre, n. (1)

    Tran 1.334 8 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...and necessitating him to regard all things as having a subjective or relative existence, relative to that aforesaid Unknown Centre of him.

unknown, n. (2)

    Tran 1.337 17 ...if there is...any reliance on the vast, the unknown;...the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
    Chr1 3.100 17 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man]...destroys the scepticism which says, Man is a doll, let us eat and drink, 't is the best we can do, by illuminating the untried and unknown.

Unknown, n. (1)

    Art1 2.352 25 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it...will represent to future beholders the Unknown...

unlawful, adj. (2)

    SR 2.89 20 ...do thou leave as unlawful these winnings...
    EWI 11.113 7 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies...

unlawfully, adv. (1)

    DL 7.115 10 If [man]...is mean-spirited and odious, it is because there is so much of his nature which is unlawfully withholden from him.

unlearn, v. (1)

    SL 2.160 14 Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world.

unlearned, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.100 7 There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands.
    Milt1 12.269 21 ...[Milton] threw himself, the flower of elegancy, on the side of the reeking conventicle; the side of humanity, but unlearned and unadorned.

unleavened, adj. (4)

    NER 3.252 12 One apostle thought all men should go to farming...another that the mischief was in our diet, that we eat and drink damnation. These made unleavened bread...
    SwM 4.135 21 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with heave-offerings and unleavened bread...
    LS 11.3 12 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...whether leavened or unleavened bread should be broken;-the questions have been settled differently in every church...
    LS 11.9 8 It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate the lamb and the unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed manner.

unlettered, adj. (2)

    PPh 4.76 9 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess.
    ET14 5.259 3 Might I, an unlettered man, venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...

unlike, adj. (17)

    DSA 1.120 17 Behold these infinite relations, so like, so unlike;...
    LE 1.166 10 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of...picturesque speech, in the man addressing an assembly;-a state of being and power how unlike his own!
    Hist 2.15 11 ...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of Phocion?
    SR 2.59 2 ...of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem.
    SL 2.162 6 ...the eye of the beholder is puzzled, detecting many unlike tendencies...
    Fdsp 2.212 11 You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house. If unlike, his soul only flees the faster from you...
    Exp 3.43 4 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ Like and unlike,/ Portly and grim/...
    Exp 3.70 2 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new and very unlike what he promised himself.
    Nat2 3.178 4 The sunset is unlike anything that is underneath it: it wants men.
    MoS 4.157 11 [The skeptic says] Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop, when we know there are not one or two only, but ten, twenty, a thousand things, and unlike?
    ET4 5.44 11 The individuals at the extremes of divergence in one race of men are as unlike as the wolf to the lapdog.
    Clbs 7.225 23 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles.
    Chr2 10.106 6 How unlike our habitual turn of thought was that of the last century in this country!
    Thor 10.458 4 [Thoreau] was more unlike his neighbors in his thought than in his action.
    GSt 10.503 2 ...unlike other benefactors, [George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits...
    ChiE 11.473 1 [Confucius's] morals, though addressed to a state of society unlike ours, we read with profit to-day.
    Milt1 12.255 13 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson, students, with very unlike temper and success, of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton' s inspirations.

unlikely, adj. (1)

    Wom 11.419 7 Providence is always surprising us with new and unlikely instruments.

unlikeness, n. (5)

    Nat 1.43 20 Not only resemblances exist in things whose analogy is obvious...but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness.
    SL 2.148 24 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself...
    Fdsp 2.208 13 Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party.
    ShP 4.189 6 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original. Nor does valuable originality consist in unlikeness to other men.
    Mem 12.93 14 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by...likeness, unlikeness...

unlike-seeming, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.9 6 We are...by this experience [of dreams]...acquainted with the identity of very unlike-seeming effects.

unlimited, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.36 8 Space, time...give us sincerest lessons, day by day, whose meaning is unlimited.
    YA 1.374 18 ...we repair commerce with unlimited credit, and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
    YA 1.374 19 ...we repair commerce with unlimited credit, and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
    UGM 4.25 7 We love to associate with heroic persons, since our receptivity is unlimited;...
    F 6.29 4 Whoever has had experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power.
    PerF 10.76 3 ...the wise merchant by truth in his dealings finds his credit unlimited...
    Thor 10.459 12 ...the President [of Harvard University] found...the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving [Thoreau] a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    Wom 11.420 15 On the questions that are important...whether the unlimited sale of cheap liquors shall be allowed;-[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
    Bost 12.189 12 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory-conferred on the patentees...with unlimited jurisdiction...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...
    Milt1 12.271 22 [Milton] taught the doctrine of unlimited toleration.

unlock, v. (9)

    AmS 1.95 8 [The world's] attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts...
    MR 1.232 22 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man delights to unlock to a noble friend;...
    Hist 2.38 7 No man can...guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock...
    SwM 4.115 22 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences, to unlock the meaning of the world?
    Wsp 6.199 6 Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows:/ He to captivity was sold,/ But him no prison-bars would hold:/ Though they sealed him in a rock,/ Mountain chains he can unlock/...
    PPo 8.264 28 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
    PerF 10.71 12 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues;...
    Edc1 10.129 26 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all...unlock for us the concealed faculties of the mind?
    Bost 12.204 26 [The people of Massachusetts] did not try to unlock the treasure of the world except by honest keys of labor and skill.

unlocked, v. (2)

    ET16 5.290 15 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately...
    Dem1 10.8 15 Once or twice the conscious fetters shall seem to be unlocked [by dreams]...

unlocking, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.26 24 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors...
    Ctr 6.150 26 ...[the man of the world] allows himself to be surprised into... the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.
    FRep 11.522 2 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...sees its inevitable force unlocking itself in elemental order day by day...

unlocks, v. (6)

    Nat 1.35 23 ...every object rightly seen, unlocks a new faculty of the soul.
    SL 2.163 11 The good soul...unlocks new magazines of power and enjoyment to me every day.
    Pt1 3.33 22 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene.
    F 6.14 25 Lodged in the parent animal...[the vesicle] unlocks itself to fish, bird, or quadruped...
    Ctr 6.151 16 ...the box-coat is like wine, it unlocks the tongue...
    Aris 10.52 27 ...Genius unlocks for all men the chains of use, temperament and drudgery...

unlooked, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.22 27 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising...that I at first was near to laugh;...

unlooked-for, adj. (9)

    AmS 1.82 18 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...
    YA 1.364 9 An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad is the increased acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless resources of their own soil.
    YA 1.366 13 This inclination [to cultivate the soil] has appeared in the most unlooked-for quarters...
    Exp 3.69 23 The persons who compose our company...design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Elo2 8.112 2 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot...by the exhibition of an unlooked-for bias in the judges or in the audience.
    Elo2 8.120 7 ...give [an eloquent man]...the inspiration of a great multitude, and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers.
    Schr 10.268 21 ...the scholar finds in [the practical men] unlooked-for acceptance of his most paradoxical experience.
    ChiE 11.474 6 [Asian immigrants'] power of continuous labor...their stoical economy, are unlooked-for virtues.
    Let 12.392 20 Very unlooked-for political and social effects of the iron road are fast appearing.

unloose, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.151 2 ...are there not women...who unloose our tongues and we speak;...

unloved, adj. (1)

    SL 2.160 1 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.

unlovely, adj. (4)

    DSA 1.137 9 ...now the priest's Sabbath has lost the splendor of nature; it is unlovely;...
    SwM 4.131 3 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied...
    Prch 10.221 15 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world.
    Mem 12.104 14 The spring days when the bluebird arrives...are sour and unlovely;...

unluckily, adv. (3)

    Exp 3.47 4 I quote another man's saying; unluckily that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
    Nat2 3.191 13 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences, the main attention has been diverted to this object;...
    Ill 6.314 21 Pears and cakes are good for something; and because you unluckily have an eye or nose too keen, why need you spoil the comfort which the rest of us find in them?

unlucky, adj. (2)

    SA 8.79 15 ...how impossible to overcome the obstacle of an unlucky temperament and acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start;...
    Aris 10.44 11 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you...whether he shall be a bungler, driveller, unlucky, heavy and tedious.

unmade, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.249 6 Masses are rude, lame, unmade...

unmake, v. (2)

    SwM 4.136 13 Locke said, God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
    FRep 11.528 10 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance... proceed on the belief...that [the people's] union and law are not in their memory, but in their blood and condition. If they unmake a law, they can easily make a new one.

unmakes, v. (2)

    LE 1.176 24 Fatal to the man of letters, fatal to man, is...the seeming that unmakes our being.
    WD 7.165 6 The machine unmakes the man.

unmaking, v. (1)

    Con 1.296 16 There is not only the alternative of making and not making, but also of unmaking.

unmanageable, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.168 11 The machinery has proved, like the balloon, unmanageable...

unmanliness, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.128 10 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.

unmanly, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 22 I do not find the religions of men at this moment very creditable to them, but either childish and insignificant or unmanly and effeminating.

unmans, v. (1)

    ET10 5.167 1 ...the machine unmans the user.

unmarriageable, adj. (1)

    MN 1.207 15 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and [man] was hurled into being as...the mediator betwixt two else unmarriageable facts.

unmask, v. (3)

    LT 1.267 25 Let us unmask the king as he passes.
    ET7 5.118 6 When [the English] unmask cant, they say, The English of this is, etc.;...
    Chr2 10.109 12 ...we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

unmasked, v. (1)

    ET16 5.285 23 Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of the Gothic art in England, as the buttresses are fully unmasked and honestly detailed from the sides of the pile.

unmaskers, n. (1)

    Ill 6.313 7 Society does not love its unmaskers.

unmatchable, adj. (1)

    NER 3.276 9 If [a man's constitution] cannot carry itself as it ought, high and unmatchable in the presence of any man;...it is time to undervalue what he has valued...

unmeaning, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.179 18 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on,--a sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country is whitewashed all over by unmeaning names...

unmeasurable, adj. (1)

    OS 2.271 21 [This pure nature] is undefinable, unmeasurable;...

unmeasured, adj. (2)

    Supl 10.172 14 The objection to unmeasured speech is its lie.
    TPar 11.289 16 [Theodore Parker] was capable...of the most unmeasured eulogies on those he esteemed...

unmentionable, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.272 10 The unmentionable dollar itself has at last a high origin in moral and metaphysical nature.

unmerciful, adj. (2)

    Mrs1 3.135 6 It were unmerciful, I know, quite to abolish the use of these screens...
    Insp 8.285 26 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./

unmindful, adj. (1)

    WSL 12.345 20 A moral force, yet wholly unmindful of creed and catechism...[character] works directly and without means...

unmistakable, adj. (3)

    ShP 4.196 5 ...the play [Henry VIII] contains through all its length unmistakable traits of Shakspeare's hand...
    F 6.35 6 ...when mature [the Neopolitan] assumes the forms of the unmistakable scoundrel.
    Elo2 8.131 4 [Eloquence] is the attitude taken, the unmistakable sign...that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.

unmistakably, adv. (4)

    Suc 7.296 20 ...in every book [a good reader] finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
    Carl 10.491 2 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls, and then, lastly, unmistakably to the priest, in a manner that frightened the whole company.
    EPro 11.317 4 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant policy, as if he chose to be strictly the executive of the best public sentiment of the country, waiting only till it should be unmistakably pronounced...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of
    FRep 11.526 11 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work...

unmitigated, adj. (2)

    F 6.10 3 ...sometimes...the rank unmitigated elixir...is drawn off in a separate individual...
    Let 12.404 4 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the Indian, of the Negro, of the emigrant, remain unmitigated...

unmixed, adj. (4)

    Exp 3.66 2 ...every good quality is noxious if unmixed...
    ET14 5.235 5 The [English] children and laborers use the Saxon unmixed. The Latin unmixed is abandoned to the colleges and Parliament.
    F 6.10 2 ...sometimes the unmixed temperament...is drawn off in a separate individual...
    LS 11.3 11 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper]; whether mixed or unmixed wine should be served;...the questions have been settled differently in every church...

unmoved, adj. (1)

    DL 7.119 25 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys discharging as they can their household chores...

unmusical, adj. (1)

    Int 2.347 9 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men...

unmuzzling, v. (1)

    SA 8.98 18 ...even if you could trust yourself on that perilous topic [sickness], beware of unmuzzling a valetudinarian, who will soon give you your fill of it.

unnamable, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.72 3 [Socrates]...affected low phrases, and illustrations from... grooms and farriers and unnamable offices...

unnamed, adj. (3)

    MR 1.227 14 ...some sources of human instruction are almost unnamed and unknown among us;...
    Int 2.325 7 ...the intellect dissolves...the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum.
    Bost 12.187 22 Demand and supply run [in Paris] into every invisible and unnamed province of whim and passion.

unnatural, adj. (4)

    Con 1.299 19 ...[reform] runs...to unnatural refining and elevation...
    HDC 11.84 4 I find [in Concord annals]...no unnatural crimes.
    EWI 11.119 1 The planter is the spoiled child of his unnatural habits...
    PLT 12.12 20 We have invincible repugnance...to study of the eyes instead of that which the eyes see; and the belief of men is that the attempt is unnatural...

unnecessarily, adv. (1)

    WD 7.178 20 Life is unnecessarily long.

unnecessary, adj. (9)

    YA 1.368 7 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make...chains of mountains quite unnecessary to his scenery;...
    SR 2.48 22 ...[the youth] will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary.
    SL 2.138 24 ...our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless;...
    Lov1 2.170 4 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.
    Exp 3.84 11 In good earnest I am willing to spare this most unnecessary deal of doing.
    Pol1 3.216 8 The appearance of character makes the State unnecessary.
    Ill 6.315 15 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary;...
    Cour 7.276 19 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...foresee in the secular melioration of the planet how these [beast-like men] will become unnecessary and will die out.
    Bost 12.203 8 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light, some new doctrinaire who makes an unnecessary ado to establish his dogma;...

unobserved, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.345 6 ...this masterpiece is the result of such an extreme delicacy that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most aspiring genius, and spoil the work.
    UGM 4.18 26 If a wise man should appear in our village he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages;...

unobstructed, adj. (3)

    LE 1.181 21 ...the lower faculties of man are subdued to docility; through which as an unobstructed channel the soul now easily and gladly flows?
    SL 2.134 17 [Men of extraordinary success's] success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel;...
    ShP 4.191 13 Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in... suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

unoccupied, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.332 17 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination in our unoccupied American Parnassus.

unofficered, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.365 15 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered.

unopened, adj. (2)

    ShP 4.201 26 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left...no chest in a garret unopened...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    NMW 4.238 27 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks...

unopposed, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.270 25 How to live with unfit companions?...experience teaches little better than our earliest instinct of self-defence, namely...to...let their madness spend itself unopposed.

unpaid, adj. (6)

    AmS 1.100 21 [The scholar] plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation.
    Comp 2.126 11 ...a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.
    NER 3.283 18 Work, [the Law] saith to man, in every hour, paid or unpaid, see only that thou work...
    SA 8.102 14 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    LLNE 10.343 26 All [The Dial's] papers were unpaid contributions...
    SlHr 10.448 13 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to unpaid services of the Temperance and Peace and other philanthropic societies...

unpainted, adj. (2)

    Art1 2.360 17 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear, in the gray unpainted wood cabin...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    EzRy 10.383 22 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold, unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...

unpalatable, adj. (2)

    F 6.16 16 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox...
    PPo 8.250 11 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world.

unparalleled, adj. (2)

    Bost 12.194 23 These men [Christian writers] are a bridge to us between the unparalleled piety of the Hebrew epoch and our own.
    MAng1 12.240 12 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of Dante and Petrarch.

unpardonable, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.320 21 The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled, but of unpardonable liberties taken by the translators...

unparliamentary, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.285 24 ...one must learn from Burke how to be severe without being unparliamentary.

unpayable, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.126 12 ...a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.

unpenetrated, adj. (2)

    F 6.31 26 Fate then is a name...for causes which are unpenetrated.
    F 6.32 3 Fate is unpenetrated causes.

unpeople, v. (1)

    NER 3.278 20 Could [the proposition of depravity] be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.

unperfumed, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.345 24 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of them, and leave their unperfumed body as its tomb and tablet...

unphilosophical, adj. (2)

    MMEm 10.421 20 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It... lacks somewhat of the grandeur that belongs to a Doric and unphilosophical age.
    SMC 11.350 3 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted,-no matter how frivolous or unphilosophical its pulses...

unpleasant, adj. (4)

    YA 1.376 17 ...this unpleasant egotism, Feudalism opposes and finally destroys.
    Prd1 2.238 1 In the occurrence of unpleasant things among neighbors, fear comes readily to heart and magnifies the consequence of the other party;...
    EWI 11.104 1 We sympathize very tenderly here with the poor aggrieved [West Indian] planter, of whom so many unpleasant things are said;...
    EWI 11.124 1 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips. What if it cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa?

unpleasing, adj. (3)

    Supl 10.165 2 Every favorite is not a cherub...nor each unpleasing person a dark, diabolical intriguer;...
    FSLC 11.181 12 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers: not an unpleasing sentiment...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    Milt1 12.276 14 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances. We hesitate to say such things, and say them only to the unpleasing dualism, when the man and the poet show like a double consciousness.

unpoetic, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.66 10 The savant becomes unpoetic.
    PI 8.37 9 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage...only these things...displaced, or put in kitchen order, they are unpoetic.
    Aris 10.64 4 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...who abandons his right position of being priest and poet of these impious and unpoetic doers of God's work.
    Shak1 11.449 7 ...[Shakespeare] is...the genius which, in upoetic ages, keeps poetry in honor...

unpoetical, adj. (1)

    PI 8.10 9 Science was false by being unpoetical.

unpolished, adj. (1)

    Wom 11.409 9 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference; that in the former, though unpolished by fashion...he had found much observation and much intelligence;...

unpopular, adj. (3)

    ET7 5.123 5 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
    Wsp 6.235 2 [Benedict said] My race may not be prospering; we are sick, ugly, obscure, unpopular.
    MMEm 10.415 27 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age, when my [Mary Moody Emerson's] senses and understanding seemed but means of labor, or to learn my own unpopular destiny...

unpopularity, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.261 24 ...not only need we breathe and exercise the soul by assuming the penalties...of unpopularity...

unpractical, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.414 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things than their individual fault. It was from being early impressed by my poor unpractical aunt, that Providence and Prayer were all in all.

unpractised, adj. (1)

    Art2 7.45 5 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.

unprecedented, adj. (6)

    SR 2.73 6 ...these [family] relations I must fill after a new and unprecedented way.
    Chr1 3.108 14 None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his own high unprecedented way.
    Aris 10.61 22 ...by secret obedience, [the generous soul] has made a place for himself in the world; stands there a real, substantial, unprecedented person...
    SovE 10.205 7 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...and the more intellectual reject every yoke of authority and custom with a petulance unprecedented.
    ACiv 11.309 11 An unprecedented material prosperity has not tended to make us Stoics or Christians.
    EdAd 11.383 7 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power from the new arts...

unprepared, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.237 17 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind: I mean unprepared courage;...

unpresentable, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.138 26 I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person.
    Clbs 7.247 11 I remember a social experiment in this direction, wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable.
    Let 12.396 11 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed...let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.

unpretending, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.358 26 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... the most amiable, sensible, unpretending of men;...

unprincipled, adj. (3)

    Comp 2.94 20 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men...
    CbW 6.247 10 [Fine society] is an unprincipled decorum;...
    MoL 10.256 5 I distrust all the legends of great accomplishments or performance of unprincipled men.

unprivileged, adj. (1)

    YA 1.393 11 The aristocracy...degrades life for the unprivileged classes.

unprized, adj. (1)

    PI 8.13 5 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property...

unproducible, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.214 19 ...like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so [are Shakespeare's sonnets] a speech of poetic beings, and any clause as unproducible now as a whole poem.

unproductive, adj. (3)

    LE 1.157 16 ...men here...prefer...any livery productive of ease or profit, to the unproductive service of thought.
    Art1 2.354 15 Our happiness and unhappiness are unproductive.
    CbW 6.265 25 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of pitiers of themselves...

unprofaned, adj. (1)

    LT 1.285 12 [Speculators] have some piety which looks with faith to a fair Future, unprofaned by rash and unequal attempts to realize it.

unprofitable, adj. (7)

    LT 1.278 14 To the youth...full of compunction at his unprofitable existence, the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements...
    Exp 3.46 13 All our days are so unprofitable while they pass...
    NER 3.252 6 [The Sabbath and Bible Conventions] defied each other, like a congress of kings, each of whom had...a way of his own that made concert unprofitable.
    ET5 5.98 21 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep.
    Insp 8.285 6 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./ But they left me lying in sleep/ Dull, and not to be enlivened,/ And after every late morning/ Followed unprofitable days./
    LLNE 10.339 24 ...[Channing's] cold temperament made him the most unprofitable private companion;...
    PLT 12.7 25 ...[a plain man] comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.

unprofitableness, n. (1)

    Cir 2.317 9 I accuse myself of sloth and unprofitableness day by day;...

unpropitious, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.13 22 When Hector is told that the omens are unpropitious, he replies,-One omen is the best, to fight for one's country./

unprotected, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.118 15 ...as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

unproved, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.12 14 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.

unproven, adj. (2)

    LT 1.291 5 You shall be the asylum and patron of...every unproven opinion...
    PPr 12.388 24 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig, or Teuffelsdrockh...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.

unprovided, adj. (3)

    NR 3.238 13 ...[Nature] does not go unprovided;...
    Res 8.145 20 Malus...was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, which was heinously unprovided and exposed.
    Comc 8.163 25 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they carried...

unpublished, adj. (6)

    Exp 3.63 11 ...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.
    UGM 4.12 1 Unpublished nature will have its whole secret told.
    ET1 5.23 10 I told [Wordsworth] how much the few printed extracts had quickened the desire to possess his unpublished poems.
    Schr 10.262 25 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...detectors and delineators of occult symmetries and unpublished beauties;...
    Thor 10.482 7 I subjoin a few sentences taken from [Thoreau's] unpublished manuscripts...
    HDC 11.83 8 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town...

unpunctuality, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.228 18 ...the discomfort of unpunctuality...is of no nation.

unpunished, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.95 24 ...whatever instances can be quoted of unpunished theft, or of a lie which somebody credited, justice must prevail...

unquestionable, adj. (4)

    SwM 4.97 20 In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat morbid has mingled, in spite of the unquestionable increase of mental power.
    Aris 10.58 20 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...changes never...
    Wom 11.419 17 [Women] have an unquestionable right to their own property.
    WSL 12.346 10 [Landor] exercises with a grandeur of spirit the office of writer, and carries it with an air of old and unquestionable nobility.

unquestionably, adv. (1)

    PPh 4.75 20 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates, to which unquestionably his own debt was great;...

unquestioning, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.11 9 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...

unquiet, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.162 11 When the state is unquiet, personal qualities are more than ever decisive.

unravel, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.102 20 ...[the hero] cannot...wait to unravel any man's blunders;...

unravelled, v. (1)

    MN 1.200 15 [The dance of the hours] will not be dissected, nor unravelled, nor shown.

unreal, adj. (6)

    MR 1.229 5 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas...
    LT 1.279 8 ...the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart.
    Nat2 3.178 6 ...the beauty of nature must always seem unreal and mocking, until the landscape has human figures that are as good as itself.
    NER 3.273 27 We are weary of gliding ghostlike through the world, which is itself so slight and unreal.
    UGM 4.28 3 The best discovery the discoverer makes for himself. It has something unreal for his companion until he too has substantiated it.
    Dem1 10.3 14 There lies a sleeping city, God of dreams!/ What an unreal and fantastic world/ Is going on below!/

unrealities, n. (2)

    Nat 1.58 15 ...Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world; they are... unrealities;...
    PPh 4.50 6 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...unconnected with unrealities...

unreality, n. (2)

    Nat 1.19 14 The shows of day...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    PLT 12.19 14 ...when we have come, by a divine leading, into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of what we esteemed final.

unrealized, v. (1)

    Nat 1.50 27 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...

unreason, n. (1)

    PLT 12.54 9 Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the humorist's point of view...

unreasonable, adj. (7)

    Hsm1 2.253 11 ...the soul of a better quality thrusts back the unreasonable economy into the vaults of life...
    Nat2 3.184 13 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. ... A very unreasonable postulate, said the metaphysicians...
    CbW 6.275 17 Our domestic service is usually a foolish fracas of unreasonable demand on one side and shirking on the other.
    Dem1 10.17 14 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. It was not god-like, since it seemed unreasonable;...
    LS 11.20 24 ...to adhere to one form a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable...
    HDC 11.48 17 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road; and one of them demanding large damages, many offers were made him in town-meeting, and refused; which the town thought very unreasonable.
    EWI 11.127 14 These considerations...had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action. It was inevitable that men should feel these motives. But they do not appear to have had an excessive or unreasonable weight.

unreasonableness, n. (1)

    ET1 5.10 24 ...[Coleridge] burst into a declamation on the folly and ignorance of Unitarianism,--its high unreasonableness;...

unreasonably, adv. (1)

    FSLC 11.194 11 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart. You can keep no secret, for whatever is true some of them will unreasonably say.

unrecognizable, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.200 23 Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait, it soon becomes unrecognizable...

unreflecting, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.407 14 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...

unregarded, adj. (3)

    Elo1 7.93 9 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that the words and sentences uttered by him...fall from him as unregarded parts of that terrible whole which he sees...
    Dem1 10.28 9 The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste...unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.
    Milt1 12.248 19 [Milton's] poem fell unregarded among his countrymen.

unrelated, adj. (7)

    Fdsp 2.207 27 Unrelated men give little joy to each other...
    PPo 8.257 11 With unrelated glance/ I looked the rose in the eye:/ The rose in the hour of gloaming/ Flamed like a lamp hard-by./
    Grts 8.301 14 ...no man is unrelated;...
    Prch 10.221 18 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To wander all day in the sunlight among the tribes of animals, unrelated to anything better;...
    Mem 12.90 8 Without [memory] all life and thought were an unrelated succession.
    Mem 12.92 3 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.
    CL 12.165 19 If we believed that Nature was foreign and unrelated...we should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.

unrelenting, adj. (2)

    SR 2.82 2 I...at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is...the sad self, unrelenting...that I fled from.
    JBS 11.276 14 And since they could not so avail/ To check his unrelenting quest,/ They seized him, saying, Let him test/ How real is our jail!/

unreliable, adj. (1)

    JBB 11.271 1 We fancy, in Massachusetts, that we are free; yet it seems the government is quite unreliable.

unreliableness, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.182 20 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed the slightness and unreliableness of our social fabric...

unrelieved, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.241 21 A fine melancholy, not unrelieved by his habitual heroism, pervades [Michelangelo's] thoughts on this subject [death].

unreligiously, adv. (1)

    EdAd 11.382 16 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./ For we invade them impiously for gain;/ We devastate them unreligiously,/ And coldly ask their pottage, not their love./

unremitting, adj. (1)

    Hsm1 2.262 22 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor...

unrenewed, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.49 14 To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.

unrepeated, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.101 17 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit. Yet there stands that fact unrepeated...

unrepenting, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.88 4 Work of his hand/ He nor commends nor grieves:/ Pleads for itself the fact;/ As unrepenting Nature leaves/ Her every act./

unrepresented, adj. (2)

    Edc1 10.131 18 In some sort the end of life is that the man should take up the universe into himself, or out of that quarry leave nothing unrepresented.
    Thor 10.460 10 ...idealist as he was...[Thoreau] found himself not only unrepresented in actual politics, but almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.

unrequited, adj. (2)

    Fdsp 2.216 20 It is thought a disgrace to love unrequited.
    Fdsp 2.216 21 ...the great will see that true love cannot be unrequited.

unreservedly, adv. (2)

    Int 2.344 7 ...whilst he [in whom the love of truth predominates] gives himself up unreservedly to that which draws him...he is to refuse himself to that which draws him not...
    Comc 8.160 27 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy, giving himself unreservedly to his senses...

unresistible, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.266 19 [Milton] celebrates in the martyrs the unresistible might of weakness.

unresistingly, adv. (1)

    ET7 5.117 13 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.

unrespecting, adj. (1)

    Comc 8.158 27 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...enjoying the figure which each self-satisfied particular creature cuts in the unrespecting All...

unresting, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.276 11 ...[the hideous facts in history] require of us...an unresting exploration of final causes.

unrestrained, adj. (4)

    Cir 2.318 3 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good...
    Pow 6.55 13 Where [the arteries] pour [the blood] unrestrained into the veins, the spirit is low and feeble.
    DL 7.120 26 ...who can see unmoved...the unrestrained glee with which [the eager, blushing boys] disburden themselves of their early mental treasures when the holidays bring them again together?
    PC 8.229 13 ...when [a man] talks to men with the unrestrained frankness which children use with each other, he communicates himself, and not his vanity.

unrewarded, adj. (2)

    MoS 4.155 9 ...[the skeptic] stands for...a cool head and whatever serves to keep it cool;...no unrewarded self-devotion...
    Pow 6.53 16 ...[power] is an element with which the world is so saturated... that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

unrigged, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.163 11 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel...dismantled and unrigged, to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.

unright, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.235 17 The army of unright is encamped from pole to pole...

unripe, adj. (6)

    CbW 6.250 15 Nature...shakes down a tree full of gnarled, wormy, unripe crabs, before you can find a dozen dessert apples;...
    CbW 6.252 15 To say then, the majority are wicked, means...simply that the majority are unripe...
    DL 7.126 23 Beauty is, even in the beautiful, occasional, or, as one has said, culminating and perfect only a single moment, before which it is unripe...
    LLNE 10.332 12 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...with their unripe Latin and Greek reading...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    PLT 12.18 11 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time...
    PPr 12.383 6 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...because of...the waste of strength in gathering unripe fruits.

unrivalled, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.104 22 Unrivalled dissectors...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...

unroll, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.119 25 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice...

unrolled, v. (1)

    Plu 10.303 4 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...

unrolls, v. (2)

    MN 1.206 27 ...when Napoleon unrolls his map, the eye is commanded by original power.
    Plu 10.303 5 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...

unroof, v. (1)

    EWI 11.122 10 Our culture is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it.

unroofs, v. (1)

    ET5 5.98 22 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep. He unroofs the houses and ships the population to America.

unsafe, adj. (2)

    ET7 5.125 17 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge. Mr. B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the attention of the audience and the performers to the fact that, in his judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
    EWI 11.110 20 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe...

unsaid, adj. (4)

    SR 2.68 17 ...the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid;...
    OS 2.278 13 The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation.
    Nat2 3.179 9 ...taking timely warning, and leaving many things unsaid on this topic, let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
    NR 3.248 1 How sincere and confidential we can be, saying all that lies in the mind, and yet go away feeling that all is yet unsaid...

unsatisfactory, adj. (2)

    GoW 4.278 10 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister is] A very provoking book to the curiosity of young men of genius, but a very unsatisfactory one.
    F 6.16 17 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox...a rash and unsatisfactory writer...

unsatisfied, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.289 4 The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied.

unsay, v. (4)

    Lov1 2.174 8 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
    NR 3.247 8 If...the hearer who is ready to sell all and join the crusade could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
    PI 8.68 6 The praise we now give to our heroes we shall unsay when we make larger demands.
    Supl 10.168 17 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday?

unsays, v. (1)

    Grts 8.304 14 ...you shall not tell me that you have learned to know men;... your saying so unsays it.

unschooled, adj. (2)

    Hist 2.41 2 The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.
    Hsm1 2.251 5 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man...that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists.

unschooled, n. (1)

    Nat 1.58 10 [Religion] does that for the unschooled, which philosophy does for Berkeley and Viasa.

unscrupulous, adj. (6)

    NMW 4.255 10 [Napoleon] was thoroughly unscrupulous.
    Pow 6.65 2 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage. Fierce and unscrupulous, they are usually frank and direct and above falsehood.
    Insp 8.285 29 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./
    EWI 11.124 4 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows...
    FSLC 11.183 7 A man of a greedy and unscrupulous selfishness may maintain morals when they are in fashion...
    FRep 11.522 20 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks. This...gives, of course, an easy self-reliance that makes him self-willed and unscrupulous.

unscrutable, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.36 18 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek... pay to unscrutable force we call Instinct...

unsearchable, adj. (1)

    OS 2.292 19 ...for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable.

unsearched, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.114 7 ...this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs...to the American Scholar.
    ShP 4.201 25 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...

unseasonable, adj. (5)

    SL 2.163 5 Shall I skulk and dodge and duck with my unseasonable apologies...
    Fdsp 2.199 24 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently...by sudden, unseasonable apathies...in the heydey of friendship and thought.
    Elo1 7.83 15 Poor Tom never knew the time when the present occurrence was so trivial that he could tell what was passing in his mind without being checked for unseasonable speech;...
    SA 8.98 22 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company.
    EPro 11.322 25 It is wonderful to see the unseasonable senility of what is called the Peace Party...

unseat, v. (2)

    ET14 5.232 2 A strong common sense, which it is not easy to unseat or disturb, marks the English mind for a thousand years;...
    Elo1 7.77 27 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily...might...unseat any sovereign...

unseated, v. (1)

    Bty 6.288 10 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people]...the little rider would be discovered and unseated...

unseen, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.58 9 ...the things that are unseen, are eternal.
    MN 1.209 17 As children in their play run behind each other, and seize one by the ears and make him walk before them, so is the spirit our unseen pilot.
    MoS 4.170 20 Seen or unseen, we believe the tie exists [between all things in life].
    Pow 6.57 3 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans...
    Wsp 6.215 18 Let us...dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
    Ill 6.309 12 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...heard the voice of unseen waterfalls;...
    Chr2 10.101 10 The Arabians delight in expressing the sympathy of the unseen world with holy men.
    SovE 10.192 5 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven.
    EdAd 11.392 9 ...the Divine, or, as some will say, the truly Human, hovers, now seen, now unseen, before us.
    PLT 12.55 7 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which, seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
    CL 12.163 1 ...the very time at which [my naturalist] used [the farmers'] land and water (for his boat glided like a trout everywhere unseen) was in hours when they were sound asleep.

unseen, n. (2)

    SL 2.146 18 We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen.
    LLNE 10.327 9 [The new race] rebel...against mediation, or saints, or any nobility in the unseen.

unselfish, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.101 17 The charm in Nelson's history is the unselfish greatness, the assurance of being supported to the uttermost by those whom he supports to the uttermost.

unsettle, v. (2)

    Cir 2.318 13 I unsettle all things.
    Exp 3.78 19 ...[murder] does not unsettle [the murderer] or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles;...

unsettled, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.54 10 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/...
    YA 1.392 16 ...to imaginative persons in this country there is somewhat bare and bald in our short history and unsettled wilderness.
    Cir 2.320 6 ...only as far as [people] are unsettled is there any hope for them.
    EdAd 11.391 8 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame;...

unsettled, v. (2)

    Exp 3.64 17 So many things are unsettled which it is of the first importance to settle;...
    ET7 5.125 6 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.

unsexed, v. (1)

    Wom 11.421 11 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that...if they become good politicians they are worse clergymen. So of women, that they cannot enter this arena without being contaminated and unsexed.

unsexing, v. (1)

    Wom 11.423 7 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only accuses our existing politics...

unshared, adj. (1)

    MR 1.232 15 ...the general system of our trade (apart from the blacker traits, which, I hope, are exceptions...unshared by all reputable men) is a system of selfishness;...

unsheathe, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.134 6 ...if [a man] be capable of dividing men by the trenchant sword of his thought, education should unsheathe and sharpen it;...

unsheathing, v. (1)

    F 6.14 24 Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle] suffers changes which end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the unaltered vesicle...

unsightly, adj. (1)

    Fdsp 2.196 24 The root of the plant is not unsightly to science...

unskilful, adj. (6)

    NR 3.226 14 ...the audience, who have only to hear and not to speak, judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.
    CbW 6.246 4 The judge...hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community; but is only an advocate after all. And so is all life a timid and unskilful spectator.
    Art2 7.45 1 A jumble of musical sounds...gives pleasure to the unskilful ear.
    PI 8.49 24 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer. If unskilful, he is at once detected by the poverty of his chimes.
    Supl 10.164 18 We are unskilful definers.
    MAng1 12.231 23 ...[St. Peter's dome] is said to have been injured by unskilful attempts to repair it.

unskilled, adj. (1)

    AKan 11.255 9 ...I had been wiser to have stayed at home, unskilled as I am to address a political meeting...

unsleeping, adj. (2)

    SovE 10.203 9 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence...
    Thor 10.464 16 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery... was in him an unsleeping insight;...

unsocial, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.342 7 ...whoso knows...these unsocial worshippers...will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    Tran 1.343 2 ...[Transcendentalists] are not by nature melancholy, sour and unsocial......

unsolid, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.348 10 Felt they no pang of passionate regret/ For those unsolid goods that seem so much our own?/

unsolvable, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.16 4 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder.

unsolved, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.16 4 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder.

unsought, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.23 1 Therefore does beauty, which...comes unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;...
    Nat 1.23 2 Therefore does beauty, which...comes unsought, and comes because it is unsought, remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;...
    Fdsp 2.194 17 My friends have come to me unsought.

unsound, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.4 16 ...speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous.
    PNR 4.84 11 Plato affirms...that the order or proceeding of nature was from the mind to the body, and, though a sound body cannot restore an unsound mind, yet a good soul can, by its virtue, render the body the best possible.

unsound, n. (2)

    CbW 6.273 9 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
    PPo 8.258 17 Hafiz says...to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

unsounded, adj. (3)

    Tran 1.334 4 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...
    DL 7.132 16 Will [man] not see...that Law prevails for ever and ever;...that its home is in his own unsounded heart;...
    SovE 10.193 23 To good men, as we call good men, this doctrine of Trust is an unsounded secret.

unsoundness, n. (2)

    SR 2.82 8 ...the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness...
    Ctr 6.157 27 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew.

unspeakable, adj. (12)

    Nat 1.17 23 The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into pink flakes modulated with tints of unspeakable softness...
    Nat 1.47 1 Thus is the unspeakable but intelligible and practicable meaning of the world conveyed to man...in every object of sense.
    ET1 5.10 21 [Coleridge] spoke of Dr. Channing. It was an unspeakable misfortune that he should have turned out a Unitarian after all.
    Bhr 6.174 3 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars.
    Chr2 10.92 11 It were an unspeakable calamity if any one should think he had the right to impose a private will on others.
    SovE 10.193 11 Settles for evermore the ponderous equator [of Divine justice] to its line, and man and mote and star and sun must range with it, or be pulverized by the recoil. It is a doctrine of unspeakable comfort.
    Schr 10.266 9 [Nature]...comes in with a new ravishing experience and makes the old time ridiculous. Every poet knows the unspeakable hope...
    Plu 10.308 8 The mathematics give [Plutarch] unspeakable pleasure...
    LLNE 10.327 6 [The new race] have a neck of unspeakable tenderness;...
    EzRy 10.393 18 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had in saying difficult and unspeakable things;...
    Thor 10.480 6 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome;...
    FSLC 11.210 24 ......still the question recurs, What must we do [about slavery]? One thing is plain, we cannot answer for the Union, but we must keep Massachusetts true. It is of unspeakable importance that she play her honest part.

unspeakably, adv. (1)

    Exp 3.59 4 Unspeakably sad and barren does life look to those who a few months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the promise of the times.

unspent, adj. (1)

    SHC 11.428 22 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...

unspiritual, adj. (2)

    LT 1.286 12 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...without the admission of anything unspiritual...
    Tran 1.336 2 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...without the admission of anything unspiritual;...

unspiritualize, v. (1)

    ET13 5.226 17 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

unspoken, adj. (1)

    NER 3.282 20 I am not pained that I cannot frame a reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence? There lies the unspoken thing, present, omnipresent.

unspotted, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.42 23 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds...
    SMC 11.373 15 On his death-bed, [George Prescott] received the needless assurances of his general that he had done more than all his duty,-needless to a conscience so faithful and unspotted.

unstable, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.105 27 The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth...
    Chr2 10.113 10 The lines of the religious sects are very shifting; their platforms unstable;...

unsteady, adj. (1)

    SR 2.53 8 I much prefer that [my life] should be of a lower strain...than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

unsubstantial, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.58 14 ...Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;...

unsuitable, adj. (1)

    LS 11.12 3 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It has been very properly dropped by other Christians. Why? For two reasons: (1) because it was a local custom, and unsuitable in western countries;...

unsuited, adj. (1)

    LS 11.19 2 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us.

unsuited, v. (1)

    ET14 5.259 13 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to ornaments of fancy unsuited to our taste...

unsung, adj. (2)

    LE 1.170 6 ...[every man's] own conversation with nature is still unsung.
    Pt1 3.38 4 Our log-rolling...Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung.

unsupported, adj. (2)

    Wsp 6.226 24 It is our system that counts, not the single word or unsupported action.
    Imtl 8.336 24 ...there is nothing in Nature...unsupported.

unsure, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.277 17 The race is great, the ideal fair, but the men whiffling and unsure.

unsurpassed, adj. (2)

    FRep 11.539 24 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed in usefulness...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    WSL 12.347 20 [Landor's] acquaintance with the English tongue is unsurpassed.

unsurprised, adj. (2)

    ET14 5.237 17 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    Dem1 10.6 14 In a dream we have...the same torpidity of the highest power, the same unsurprised assent to the monstrous as these metamorphosed men [animals] exhibit.

unsuspected, adj. (5)

    LT 1.259 10 ...there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grand and immovable, often unsuspected, behind it in silence.
    Comp 2.103 12 Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens with the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.
    SA 8.83 4 We think a man unable and desponding. It is only that he is misplaced. Put him with new companions, and they will find in him... unsuspected accomplishments...
    Dem1 10.24 14 They who love [occult facts] say they are to reveal to us a world of unknown, unsuspected truths.
    Edc1 10.138 18 I like...boys...quite unsuspected, coming in as naturally as the janitor...

unswaddling, v. (1)

    Civ 7.25 22 In man [the organs] are all unbound and full of joyful action. With this unswaddling he receives the absolute illumination we call Reason...

unsymmetrical, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.299 6 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical;...

unsympathizing, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.252 21 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...more welcome to the poet than the general and vague acknowledgment of his genius by those able but unsympathizing critics.

unsystematic, adj. (1)

    SR 2.80 13 [Unbalanced minds] do not yet perceive that light, unsystematic...will break into any cabin...

untainted, adj. (2)

    HDC 11.71 16 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...to aid all untainted magistrates in the execution of the laws of the land.
    ALin 11.328 8 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./

untamable, adj. (5)

    Fdsp 2.210 25 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever a sort of beautiful enemy, untamable, devoutly revered...
    ET1 5.7 9 I had inferred from [Landor's] books...impression of Achillean wrath,--an untamable petulance.
    CbW 6.269 20 A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
    II 12.74 26 ...[Inspiration] is untamable;...
    CL 12.134 3 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./

untaught, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.66 16 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it...is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit...
    Mrs1 3.123 27 [The name gentleman] describes a man...working after untaught methods.
    Ctr 6.139 17 ...the old English poet Gascoigne says, A boy is better unborn than untaught.
    PC 8.219 4 ...a cultivated laborer is worth many untaught laborers;...

unteachable, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.197 26 ...we are continually surprised [in the young girl] with graces and felicities not only unteachable but undescribable.

unteachableness, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.126 26 ...Man himself in many races retains almost the unteachableness of the beast.

unteaches, v. (1)

    WD 7.165 10 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him.

unthinking, adj. (1)

    EdAd 11.392 18 In the rapid decay of what was called religion, timid and unthinking people fancy a decay of the hope of man.

untie, v. (2)

    Prd1 2.232 24 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel, a knot we cannot untie.
    MoL 10.257 22 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern and Border statesmen could not untie.

untied, v. (1)

    HDC 11.45 16 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony], whilst [the settlers] untied the great cords of authority to examine their soundness...

untimely, adj. (2)

    DSA 1.132 6 Already the long shadows of untimely oblivion creep over me...
    Pt1 3.31 21 ...John saw, in the Apocalypse...the stars fall from heaven as the fig tree casteth her untimely fruit;...

untitled, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.198 13 [The English] cannot shut their eyes to the fact that an untitled nobility possess all the power without the inconveniences that belong to rank...

untold, adj. (3)

    Nat2 3.194 1 [Nature's] secret is untold.
    PI 8.39 4 [The poet] reads in the word or action of the man its yet untold results.
    Thor 10.477 11 Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening hath me brought./

untouched, adj. (3)

    MN 1.223 4 Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth...the yet untouched continent of hope glittering...in the vast West?
    DL 7.116 13 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty untouched.
    Boks 7.214 26 So much novel-reading cannot leave the young men and maidens untouched;...

untoward, adj. (1)

    RBur 11.439 2 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].

untrained, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.261 26 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I am utterly untrained in those rules which best rhetoricians have given...

untranslatable, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.285 22 ...much of the raw material of the street-talk is absolutely untranslatable into print...

untranslated, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.189 15 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher-a process...in which no point of the lower should be left untranslated;...

untransportable, adj. (1)

    LE 1.171 15 ...Truth is...so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity...

untried, adj. (6)

    AmS 1.110 3 I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they...regret the coming state as untried;...
    LE 1.167 12 The perpetual admonition of nature to us, is, The world is new, untried.
    LT 1.291 6 You shall be the asylum and patron of...every untried project which proceeds out of good will and honest seeking.
    OA 7.326 22 The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried...
    PI 8.38 3 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined...in mean employments,--and victims of these; and the nobler powers untried, unknown.
    EPro 11.315 11 Every step in the history of political liberty is a sally of the human mind into the untried Future...

untried, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.100 16 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man]...destroys the scepticism which says, Man is a doll, let us eat and drink, 't is the best we can do, by illuminating the untried and unknown.

untrue, adj. (1)

    Grts 8.301 20 ...that which invites all, belongs to us all,-to which we are all sometimes untrue, cowardly, faithless, but of which we never quite despair...

untruth, n. (5)

    Hist 2.31 3 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against this untruth, namely a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists...
    MoS 4.182 17 [The spiritualist] had rather stand charged with the imbecility of skepticism, than with untruth.
    ET18 5.299 15 Truth in private life, untruth in public, marks these home-loving men [the English].
    Art2 7.37 18 ...the human mind...tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought, modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which in all our experience injure the individuality through which it passes.
    Thor 10.456 12 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a little chilling to the social affections; and though the companion would in the end acquit him of any malice or untruth, yet it mars conversation.

untune, v. (2)

    SS 7.13 23 [Men] untune and dissipate the brave aspirant.
    Schr 10.263 18 The scholar is here...to untune nobody...

untuned, v. (1)

    Wth 6.115 12 [The pale scholar] is heated and untuned, and by and by wakes up from his idiot dream of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning thought...

untunes, v. (2)

    CbW 6.265 22 ...despair...untunes the active powers.
    Insp 8.289 3 What untunes is as bad as what cripples or stuns me.

untuning, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.287 6 ...[the scholar]...is pelted by storms of cares, untuning cares, untuning company.

untwisting, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.261 15 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/ With wanton heed and giddy cunning,/ The melting voice through mazes running,/ Untwisting all the chains that tie/ The hidden soul of harmony./

unusual, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.50 19 We are strangely affected by seeing the shore...through the tints of an unusual sky.
    Fdsp 2.193 3 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...so that they who sit by...shall feel a lively surprise at our unusual powers.
    Hsm1 2.253 10 Citizens...consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers at their fireside, reckon narrowly the loss of time and the unusual display;...
    OS 2.277 20 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought in which every heart...thinks and acts with unusual solemnity.
    NER 3.285 17 ...that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.
    MoS 4.168 15 One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work, when any unusual circumstance gives momentary importance to the dialogue.
    ET2 5.26 4 ...the invitation [to lecture in England] was repeated and pressed at a moment...when I was a little spent by some unusual studies.
    OA 7.315 15 ...the naivete of [Josiah Quincy's] eager preference of Cicero' s opinions to King David's, gave unusual interest to the College festival.
    Elo2 8.123 4 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first lectures in 1806... the hall was crowded by the Professors and by unusual visitors.
    LLNE 10.342 21 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity.
    MMEm 10.411 2 When some ladies of my acquaintance by an unusual chance found themselves in her neighborhood and visited her, I told them that [Mary Moody Emerson] was no whistle that every mouth could play on...

unusually, adv. (2)

    Comc 8.164 3 ...the very jests and merry talk of true philosophers move those that are not altogether insensible, and unusually reform.
    EzRy 10.382 19 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...

unutterable, adj. (3)

    MN 1.218 17 Here about us coils forever the ancient enigma, so old and so unutterable.
    PerF 10.77 9 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources], constituting a supreme prudence. Then the knowledge unutterable of our private strength...
    MAng1 12.243 1 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living, as it was the organ through which he sought to suggest lessons of an unutterable wisdom;...

unvailed, v. (1)

    PPo 8.253 11 No one has unvailed thoughts like Hafiz, since the locks of the World-bride were first curled.

unvarnished, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.88 10 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home?

unvarying, adj. (1)

    Koss 11.398 6 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention...the unvarying tone and countenance which you have maintained.

unveiled, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.57 16 Whilst we behold unveiled the nature of Justice and Truth, we learn the difference between the absolute and the conditional or relative.
    CPL 11.506 4 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun...burst upon me.

unveiled, v. (1)

    HCom 11.340 23 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.

unvisited, adj. (2)

    MN 1.220 20 Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some unvisited recess in Moosehead Lake...
    ET14 5.240 26 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use, but the spring-head unvisited.

unvoiced, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.298 23 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with new heroes, things unvoiced before...

unwatered, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.140 9 ...[the farmer's] milk at least is unwatered;...

unweariable, adj. (4)

    DSA 1.149 17 So it is...in unweariable endurance...that the angel is shown.
    MoS 4.160 5 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
    OA 7.330 7 Time, yes, that is...the unweariable explorer...
    Schr 10.273 13 We who should be the channel of that unweariable Power which never sleeps, must give our diligence no holidays.

unweariably, adv. (1)

    Schr 10.285 17 ...[Genius]...flings itself on real elemental things...which first subsist, and then resist unweariably forevermore all that opposes.

unwearied, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.106 5 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!

unweariedly, adv. (2)

    SwM 4.109 10 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
    PPr 12.382 9 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped...but by doing unweariedly the particular work we were born to do.

unweeded, adj. (1)

    Let 12.403 26 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden;...

unwelcome, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.67 26 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome...

unwieldy, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.67 24 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    F 6.15 23 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms... concealing under these unwieldy monsters the fine type of her coming king.

unwilling, adj. (14)

    SL 2.156 19 Truth tyrannizes over the unwilling members of the body.
    Pol1 3.217 18 I find the like unwilling homage [to character] in all quarters.
    Pol1 3.220 19 We...pay unwilling tribute to governments founded on force.
    ET9 5.149 22 [The English] tell you daily in London the story of the Frenchman and Englishman who quarrelled. Both were unwilling to fight...
    ET16 5.286 11 Carlyle was unwilling, and we did not ask to have the choir [at Salisbury Cathedral] shown us...
    Wth 6.108 1 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him.
    Wsp 6.206 19 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. O fie! O how unwilling should I be to forsake thee, in so forlorn and dreadful a position, were I thy lord and advocate, as thou art mine.
    Art2 7.46 24 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
    Elo1 7.91 25 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive...
    WD 7.161 10 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind as if the intellect were...shooting the first thrills of life and thought through the unwilling brain?
    Chr2 10.116 17 ...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
    EWI 11.106 15 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery];...
    Koss 11.401 1 ...this new crusade which you [Kossuth] preach to willing and to unwilling ears in America is a seed of armed men.
    FRO2 11.490 4 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen...

unwillingly, adv. (6)

    Tran 1.347 26 ...unwillingly [Transcendentalists] bear their part of the public and private burdens;...
    NER 3.271 3 ...Unwillingly the soul is deprived of truth.
    PNR 4.84 7 Plato affirms...that the soul is unwillingly deprived of true opinions...
    DL 7.110 2 Let [a man]...never give unwillingly.
    Elo2 8.116 6 You go to a town-meeting where the people are called to some disagreeable duty, such as, for example, often occurred during the war, at the occasion of a new draft. They come unwillingly;...
    Elo2 8.118 21 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest. Every speaker rose unwillingly...

unwillingness, n. (4)

    LT 1.278 25 ...a consent to solitude and inaction which proceeds out of an unwillingness to violate character, is the century which makes the gem.
    Tran 1.342 26 ...if any one will take pains to talk with [these separators], he will find that this part is chosen...with some unwillingness...and as a choice of the less of two evils;...
    Thor 10.476 3 [Thoreau] had...an unwillingness to exhibit to profane eyes what was still sacred in his own...
    HDC 11.85 11 I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past.

unwinding, v. (1)

    Comp 2.110 13 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat...

unwise, adj. (1)

    PI 8.69 4 Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of the world, deficient in truth of intellect and of affection. Then is conscience unfaithful, and thought unwise.

unwise, n. (2)

    Comp 2.105 9 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions, which the unwise seek to dodge...
    NER 3.285 16 ...that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

unwitnessed, adj. (1)

    SL 2.160 1 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.

unwittingly, adv. (1)

    Clbs 7.247 6 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes; and in the rich store of their adventures are instances and examples which you have been seeking in vain for years, and which they suddenly and unwittingly offer you.

unwonted, adj. (1)

    ALin 11.337 6 Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the Republic, and it was necessary that its enemies should...drive us to unwonted firmness, to secure the salvation of this country in the next ages.

unworthily, adv. (1)

    DSA 1.139 10 ...when we preach unworthily, it is not always quite in vain.

unworthiness, n. (5)

    Con 1.325 26 The law acts then as a screen of [the intemperate, covetous person's] unworthiness...
    Tran 1.343 22 ...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Lov1 2.180 21 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness;...
    LS 11.25 4 ...whilst the recollection of [the pastoral office's] claim oppresses me with a sense of my unworthiness, I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising its highest functions.
    Bost 12.210 14 This praise [of our ancestors] was a concession of unworthiness in those who had so much to say of it.

unworthy, adj. (15)

    LT 1.271 14 Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy.
    LT 1.271 16 We arraign our daily employments. They appear to us... unworthy of the faculties we spend on them.
    Con 1.308 12 I am unworthy to arraign your manner of living, until I too have been tried.
    Con 1.308 14 ...I should be more unworthy if I did not tell you why I cannot walk in your steps.
    Lov1 2.178 19 ...[the maiden] extrudes all other persons from [the lover's] attention as cheap and unworthy...
    Fdsp 2.216 22 True love transcends the unworthy object...
    Nat2 3.177 8 A dilettanteism in nature is barren and unworthy.
    NER 3.276 22 Dear to us are those who love us;...but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy...
    Elo2 8.114 3 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the pine-woods...
    LLNE 10.364 1 Hawthorne drew some sketches [of Brook Farm]...quite unworthy of his genius.
    HDC 11.59 6 ...when [King Philip] he was told that his sentence was death, he said he liked it well that he was to die before...he had spoken anything unworthy of himself.
    War 11.175 7 ...if the rising generation can be provoked to think it unworthy to nestle into every abomination of the past...then war has a short day...
    FRep 11.518 5 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who...thrust their unworthy minority into the place of the old aristocracy on the one side...
    Milt1 12.255 17 The man of Lord Chesterfield is unworthy to touch [Milton's man's] garment's hem.
    PPr 12.388 13 If the good heaven have any good word to impart to this unworthy generation, here is one scribe [Carlyle] qualified and clothed for its occasion.

unwritten, adj. (3)

    Chr1 3.112 5 Could we not deal with a few persons,--with one person,-- after the unwritten statutes...
    ET12 5.208 10 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice...
    PI 8.45 6 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.

Upanishads, n. (2)

    Boks 7.218 17 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Upanishads, the Vishnu Purana, the Bhagvat Geeta, of the Hindoos;...
    Chr2 10.115 15 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his freedom;...

Upas, Bohun [Bohon], n. (1)

    ET8 5.132 18 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh;...swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas;...

Upas, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 19 Plant...the Upas, Ebony, Century Aloes...

upborne, v. (1)

    Hist 2.12 27 Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all-creating nature... why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?

upbraid, v. (2)

    SR 2.74 17 Consider...whether any of these [father, mother, cousin, neighbor, cousin, cat, dog] can upbraid you.
    Comp 2.123 25 Look at those who have less faculty, and one...knows not well what to make of it. He almost shuns their eye; he fears they will upbraid God.

upbuilding, v. (2)

    AmS 1.107 22 The main enterprise of the world...for extent, is the upbuilding of a man.
    PI 8.64 21 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it, upbuilding the world again in the thought;...

upheave, v. (2)

    Cir 2.305 11 In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to upheave all thy creed...
    Pt1 3.33 1 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature;...

upheaved, adj. (2)

    CbW 6.262 12 We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains...
    SMC 11.350 19 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.

upheaved, v. (1)

    WD 7.159 12 Why need I speak of steam...which...vies with the forces which upheaved and doubled over the geologic strata?

upheld, v. (3)

    UGM 4.3 10 The world is upheld by the veracity of good men...
    CbW 6.254 26 Nature is upheld by antagonism.
    FSLN 11.227 16 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the question...whether the Negro shall be...a piece of money? Whether this system...shall be upheld and enlarged?

uphill, adj. [up-hill,] (2)

    Ctr 6.140 23 ...we begin the uphill agitation for repeal of that of which we ought to have prevented the enacting.
    GSt 10.504 16 Plainly [George Stearns] was...a man for up-hill work...

uphold, v. (7)

    ET11 5.173 21 ...the national music, the popular romances, conspire to uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are sapping.
    Wsp 6.212 19 Only those can help in counsel or conduct...who were appointed by God Almighty...to stand for this which they uphold.
    DL 7.117 20 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains to uphold the roof of men as faithful and necessary as themselves;...
    Chr2 10.95 6 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our seeing,-/ Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make/ Our noisy years seem moments in the being/ Of the eternal silence,-truths that wake/ To perish never./
    Chr2 10.102 26 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary...because those who can understand and uphold such appear rarely...
    MoL 10.247 18 [The scholar] knows...that the forces which uphold and pervade [the world] are eternal.
    Let 12.398 6 ...the noblest youths are in a few years converted into pale Caryatides to uphold the temple of conventions.

upholder, n. (4)

    Con 1.307 23 With equal earnestness and good faith, replies to this plaintiff an upholder of the establishment...
    SR 2.89 8 ...thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.
    Elo1 7.94 9 A good upholder of anything which they believe...[the people] will long follow;...
    MoL 10.250 20 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... consoler, upholder...

upholders, n. (1)

    LE 1.160 3 ...now will we live...as the upholders and creators of our age;...

upholding, v. (1)

    CInt 12.117 8 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college... ceases to be a school;...and instead of overawing the strong, and upholding the good, it is a hospital for decayed tutors.

upholsterer, n. (2)

    PI 8.33 25 We want design, and do not forgive the bards if they have only the art of enamelling. We want an architect, and they bring us an upholsterer.
    FRep 11.534 11 [A man's life] is manufactured for him. The tailor makes your dress;...the upholsterer, from an imported book of patterns, your furniture;...

upland, n. (1)

    CL 12.156 8 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has, of meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea...

uplands, n. (2)

    Exp 3.47 1 Yonder uplands are rich pasturage...but my field, says the querulous farmer, only holds the world together.
    Res 8.152 6 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go to wooded uplands...

uplift, v. (7)

    DSA 1.137 16 We shrink as soon as the prayers begin, which do not uplift...
    DSA 1.150 14 A whole popedom of forms one pulsation of virtue can uplift and vivify.
    SL 2.165 20 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world...these all are his...
    Chr2 10.89 3 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/ Suddenly it will uplift/ Your eyelids to the sphere:/ Wait a little, you shall see/ The portraiture of things to be./
    SovE 10.209 17 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are...joyful sparkles...and that is their priceless good to men, that they charm and uplift...
    SovE 10.214 4 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
    Mem 12.92 27 Memory is...a guardian angel set there within you to record your life; and by recording to animate you to uplift it.

uplifted, v. (5)

    Nat 1.10 7 Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes.
    Cir 2.319 22 ...let [the man and woman of seventy] behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted...
    MoL 10.257 13 The war uplifted us into generous sentiments.
    FSLC 11.189 6 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him, and that, in the best hours, he is uplifted in virtue of this essence, into a peace and into a power which the material world cannot give...
    SMC 11.350 22 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.

uplifting, adj. (1)

    CPL 11.503 7 ...if you can kindle the imagination...by uplifting poetry, instantly you expand...

uplifting, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.336 17 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence.
    Thor 10.475 24 [Thoreau] knew the worth of the Imagination for the uplifting and consolation of human life...

uplifting, v. (1)

    Prch 10.228 4 [Christianity] is the record of a pure and holy soul...bent on serving, teaching and uplifting men.

uplifts, v. (1)

    PI 8.24 13 [The intellect] compares, distributes, generalizes and uplifts [surface facts] into its own sphere.

upper, adj. (37)

    Nat 1.64 13 Once inhale the upper air...and we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...
    LE 1.177 17 How can [the scholar] catch and keep the strain of upper music that peals from [human life]?
    LT 1.278 23 ...a brave and cold neglect of the offices which prudence exacts, so it be done in a deep upper piety;...is the century which makes the gem.
    Comp 2.97 7 ...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as...upper, under;...
    Comp 2.104 1 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless;...
    Lov1 2.183 10 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar;...
    Art1 2.349 27 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/ Whilst upper life the slender rill/ Of human sense doth overfill./
    Exp 3.46 5 We are like millers on the lower levels of a stream, when the factories above them have exhausted the water. We too fancy that the upper people must have raised their dams.
    Nat2 3.169 6 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes...
    Nat2 3.172 6 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet. I think if we should be rapt away into all that and dream of heaven... the upper sky would be all that would remain of our furniture.
    NR 3.232 15 The world is full...of secret and public legions of honor; that of scholars, for example; and that of gentlemen, fraternizing with the upper class of every country and every culture.
    PPh 4.54 24 The wonderful synthesis so familiar in nature; the upper and the under side of the medal of Jove;...was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    PPh 4.72 24 [Socrates] wore no under garment; his upper garment was the same for summer and winter...
    SwM 4.108 9 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again: the hands being now the upper jaw...
    SwM 4.108 11 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this time by upper and lower teeth.
    MoS 4.149 5 The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides [sensation and morals], to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
    ET11 5.184 3 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for the first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...
    ET11 5.186 15 The upper classes have only birth, say the people here [in England], and not thoughts.
    ET12 5.200 7 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals...
    ET12 5.209 13 These seminaries [English public schools] are finishing schools for the upper classes...
    F 6.27 21 I know not whether there be...in the upper region of our atmosphere, a permanent westerly current...
    Wsp 6.210 23 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors...that life is an affair to put somewhat between the upper and lower mandibles.
    Suc 7.297 21 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak in a cold upper chamber...
    Res 8.142 3 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Comc 8.170 15 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot, who believes...that the sole end of art, virtue and poetry is to put something for mastication between the upper and lower mandibles.
    PC 8.212 2 That cosmical west wind which...constitutes, by the revolution of the globe, the upper current, is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    PC 8.233 22 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it. In England the like spiritual disease affected the upper class in the time of Charles II....
    Aris 10.38 19 The existence of an upper class is not injurious, so long as it is dependent on merit.
    Prch 10.237 16 ...the upper eyes behold causes and the connection of things.
    Prch 10.238 1 We [in the Church] come...to open the upper eyes to the deep mystery of cause and effect...
    War 11.161 12 The star once risen, though only one man in the hemisphere has yet seen its upper limb in the horizon, will mount and mount...
    Wom 11.425 2 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road...
    II 12.76 14 That is the quality of [the moral sense], that it commands, and is not commanded. And rarely, and suddenly, and without desert, we are let into the serene upper air.
    CL 12.158 15 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye is little used...
    Milt1 12.255 8 Of the upper world of man's being [Bacon's Essays] speak few and faint words.

Upper Egypt, n. (2)

    Art2 7.54 15 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk; that in Upper Egypt the inhabitants would naturally mark a memorable spot by setting up so conspicuous a stone.
    MLit 12.324 27 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt;...

uppermost, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.52 18 [Shakspeare's] imperial muse...uses [the creation] to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind.

uppermost, adv. (2)

    ShP 4.189 13 A poet is no rattle-brain, saying what comes uppermost...
    ET11 5.191 12 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls. The young men sat uppermost, the old serious lords were out of favor.

upraised, v. (1)

    Int 2.327 7 We behold [a truth separated by the intellect] as a god upraised above care and fear.

uprears, v. (1)

    PC 8.206 2 From high to higher forces/ The scale of power uprears/...

upright, adj. (18)

    DSA 1.133 16 ...when I see among my contemporaries...an upright judge...I see beauty that is to be desired.
    MR 1.228 9 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man...
    LT 1.279 24 ...if every child was brought into the Sunday School, would... man be upright?
    Hist 2.32 15 Every animal...has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    SR 2.51 8 I ought to go upright and vital...
    SR 2.67 2 Man...is no longer upright;...
    Pt1 3.36 21 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me, and perchance to themselves appear upright men;...
    ET16 5.277 5 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across--had long outstood all later churches...
    ET16 5.280 26 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line.
    Wth 6.104 8 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench, and his decisions be less upright;...
    Civ 7.33 3 The appearance...in Greece, of the Seven Wise Masters, of the acute and upright Socrates...are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Cour 7.268 9 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    Edc1 10.158 20 To whatsoever upright mind, to whatsoever beating heart I speak, to you it is committed to educate men.
    SovE 10.197 23 If I will stand upright, the creation cannot bend me.
    Plu 10.298 23 ...upright, practical;...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life...
    FSLC 11.185 2 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...
    TPar 11.286 3 Theodore Parker was...upright, of a haughty independence...
    Scot 11.467 8 [Scott] was a thoroughly upright, wise and great-hearted man...

upright, adv. (2)

    MAng1 12.238 11 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all.
    Trag 12.407 20 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you spill the salt; if your fork sticks upright in the floor;...

uprightness, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.193 14 ...[simple and noble persons]...meet on a better ground than the talents and skills they may chance to possess, namely on sincerity and uprightness.
    Chr2 10.111 2 These men [Voltaire, Frederic the Great, D'Alembert] preached the true God,-Him whom men serve by justice and uprightness;...

uprise, n. (4)

    YA 1.370 15 ...the uprise and culmination of the new and anti-feudal power of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to the American at this hour.
    YA 1.379 15 Our part is plainly...to watch the uprise of successive mornings...
    Fdsp 2.212 19 Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire,--but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them;...
    MLit 12.313 6 [Subjectiveness] is the uprise of the soul, and not the decline.

uprising, n. (2)

    RBur 11.440 6 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    RBur 11.440 7 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...that uprising which worked politically in the American and French Revolutions...

uproar, n. (12)

    SR 2.88 20 ...with each new uproar of announcement...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms.
    NMW 4.233 23 ...[Napoleon] never for a moment lost sight of his way onward, in the dazzle and uproar of the present circumstance.
    Boks 7.197 11 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who in spite of Pope and all the learned uproar of centuries, has really the true fire...
    Clbs 7.232 8 [Conversation] must not begin with uproar and violence.
    OA 7.320 6 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors...
    PI 8.74 4 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism.
    Edc1 10.140 23 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man, purged of its uproar and rudeness...
    Edc1 10.144 14 The two points in a boy's training are...to keep his naturel but stop off his uproar, fooling and horse-play;...
    FSLC 11.205 14 [The people] prefer order, and have no taste for misrule and uproar.
    FRep 11.528 17 [The America people]...have no taste for misrule and uproar.
    Mem 12.107 5 ...the true river Lethe is the body of man, with its belly and uproar of appetite and mountains of indigestion and bad humors and quality of darkness.
    Bost 12.203 17 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of all the province;...

uproarious, adj. (2)

    Clbs 7.246 9 Tutors and parents cannot interest [the boy] like the uproarious conversation he finds in the market or the dock.
    ACri 12.293 25 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself, uproarious with laughter and animal joy, on the scene...

uprolled, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.176 13 The uprolled clouds and the colors of morning and evening will transfigure maples and alders.

ups, n. (1)

    Exp 3.80 17 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many up and downs of fate...

Upsala, Sweden, n. (4)

    SwM 4.99 12 [Swedenborg]...was educated at Upsala.
    CL 12.136 22 At Upsala...[Linnaeus] instituted what were called herborizations...
    CL 12.137 4 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...
    CW 12.172 25 Linnaeus, who was professor of the Royal Gardens at Upsala, took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...

Upsala, University of, Swed (1)

    CL 12.136 15 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country...

upset, v. (2)

    Con 1.320 22 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will upset the fair pageant of Judicature...
    ET2 5.29 6 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset, shoved against the side of the house...

upsets, v. (1)

    PI 8.5 26 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets our politics, trade...

upsetting, n. (1)

    CbW 6.270 13 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with...everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.

upshot, n. (2)

    SR 2.60 22 Let us...hurl in the face of custom...the fact which is the upshot of all history...
    SwM 4.118 19 ...there is no comet...or fungus, that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.

upside, n. (5)

    Nat 1.51 11 Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture...
    Cour 7.258 26 The political reigns of terror have been...a total perversion of opinion; society is upside down...
    Comc 8.169 12 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as to see things turned upside down...
    CL 12.158 4 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
    CL 12.158 12 My companion and I...agreed that russet was the hue of Massachusetts, but on trying this experiment of inverting the view he said, There is the Campagna! and Italy is Massachusetts upside down.

upstairs, adv. (1)

    Comc 8.173 25 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall...

upstart, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.208 12 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice...

upstart, n. (1)

    ACri 12.287 21 ...the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments; as, upstart, dab, cockney...

upstream, adv. (1)

    PLT 12.12 14 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought. That is upstream, and what a stream!

uptorn, v. (1)

    PerF 10.70 26 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn and bent back...to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.

upturning, v. (1)

    Plu 10.303 13 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness the upturning of the alphabets of old races...

upward, adj. (2)

    Mrs1 3.150 21 ...by the firmness with which she treads her upward path, [woman] convinces the coarsest calculators that another road exists than that which their feet know.
    UGM 4.23 16 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...this subtilizer and irresistible upward force...

upward, adv. (23)

    AmS 1.85 12 Far too as her splendors shine, system on system shooting like rays, upward, downward...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    DSA 1.122 23 A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step so downward, is a step upward.
    Cir 2.319 14 Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring, with religious eye looking upward, counts itself nothing...
    Pt1 3.31 6 ...Timaeus...affirms a man to be a heavenly tree, growing with his root, which is his head, upward;...
    Exp 3.45 6 ...there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
    Chr1 3.95 21 We can drive a stone upward for a moment into the air...
    Nat2 3.181 21 ...[plants] grope ever upward towards consciousness;...
    SwM 4.113 3 ...as often as [nature] betakes herself upward from visible phenomena...she instantly as it were disappears, while no one knows what has become of her...
    GoW 4.262 4 ...nature strives upward;...
    CbW 6.259 20 ...there is...no plant that is not fed from manures. We only insist...that the plant grow upward and convert the base into the better nature.
    Civ 7.27 13 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam.
    Art2 7.41 21 The veranda or pagoda roof can curve upward only to a certain point.
    Cour 7.275 9 There are degrees of courage, and each step upward makes us acquainted with a higher virtue.
    PI 8.7 14 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development, indicating the way upward from the invisible protoplasm to the highest organisms, gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    PI 8.71 12 To every plant there are two powers; one shoots down as rootlet, and one upward as tree.
    PPo 8.246 25 On turnpikes of wonder/ Wine leads the mind forth,/ Straight, sidewise and upward,/ West, southward and north./
    PPo 8.255 17 Once flees [the phoenix] upward, he will perch/ On Tuba's golden bough;/ His home is on that fruited arch/ Which cools the blest below.
    Imtl 8.345 12 ...whilst I find that all the ways of virtuous living lead upward and not downward,-yet it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul.
    MoL 10.245 16 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury...have turned the eyes downward to the earth, not upward to thought.
    MMEm 10.416 23 I [Mary Moody Emerson] end days of fine health and cheerfulness without getting upward now.
    LS 11.21 20 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.
    EdAd 11.387 22 Bad as it is, this freedom [in America] leads onward and upward...
    SHC 11.434 20 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...

upwards, adv. (2)

    Ill 6.310 13 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...
    HDC 11.70 22 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons, upwards of twenty-one years of age, inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...

upward-striving, adj. (1)

    NR 3.223 1 In countless upward-striving waves/ The moon-drawn tide-wave strives/...

Uranus, n. (5)

    Con 1.296 8 Saturn grew weary of sitting...with none but the great Uranus or Heaven beholding him...
    Con 1.296 12 ...Uranus cried, A new work, O Saturn! the old is not good again.
    Con 1.296 22 O Saturn, replied Uranus, thou canst not hold thine own but by making more.
    Con 1.297 4 I appeal to Fate also, said Uranus, must there not be motion?
    Con 1.297 8 ...the word of Uranus came into [Saturn's] mind like a ray of the sun...

urbanity, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.249 27 ...let [a man]...with perfect urbanity dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech...

Urbino, Lollius of, n. (1)

    ShP 4.198 4 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung: Troilus and Creseide, from Lollius of Urbino...

Urbino, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.238 15 ...[Michelangelo] was liberal to profusion to his old domestic Urbino...

urbis, n. (1)

    Bost 12.188 6 It was said of Rome in its proudest days...the extent of the city and of the world is the same (spatium et urbis et orbis idem).

urge, v. (16)

    DSA 1.140 14 Would [the poor preacher] urge people to a godly way of living;...
    LT 1.279 3 ...I urge the more earnestly the paramount duties of self-reliance.
    Con 1.322 7 ...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused... [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge the game on.
    OS 2.275 19 ...there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature to urge a virtue which it enjoins.
    Exp 3.84 16 People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing.
    NR 3.241 9 ...our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
    NER 3.268 18 ...the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear;...
    NER 3.276 25 ...[those who reject us]...urge us to new and unattempted performances.
    Cour 7.276 23 I do not wish to...urge [any man] to ape the courage of his comrade.
    LLNE 10.344 11 Theodore Parker was...the stout Reformer to urge and defend every cause of humanity with and for the humblest of mankind.
    MMEm 10.397 17 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
    Carl 10.492 18 [Carlyle] throws himself readily on the other side. If you urge free trade, he remembers that every laborer is a monopolist.
    GSt 10.503 17 [George Stearns] passed his time in incessant consultation with all men whom he could reach, to suggest and urge the measures needed for the hour.
    FSLC 11.197 10 Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery. And the Boston Advertiser, and the Courier...urge the same course on the people of Massachusetts.
    Wom 11.425 24 Every woman being the...wife, daughter, sister, mother, of a man, she can never be very far from his ear, never not of his counsel, if she has really something to urge that is good in itself and agreeable to nature.
    CInt 12.121 3 ...I wish this were a needless task, to urge upon you scholars the claims of thought and learning.

urged, v. (31)

    Con 1.318 6 These considerations, urged by those whose characters and whose fortunes are yet to be formed, must needs command the sympathy of all reasonable persons.
    Con 1.320 16 The cause of education is urged in this country with the utmost earnestness...
    Comp 2.94 10 [The preacher]...urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties [the wicked and the good] in the next life.
    Mrs1 3.142 1 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons; when Fox urged on his old friend the claims of old friendship with such tenderness that the house was moved to tears.
    NER 3.252 14 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast...
    NER 3.260 12 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods; urged, as I suppose, by an intuition that the human spirit is equal to all emergencies alone...
    PPh 4.48 9 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects;...
    PPh 4.48 18 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many;...
    ET2 5.25 11 The request [to lecture in England] was urged with every kind suggestion...
    ET4 5.70 16 [The English] walk and ride as fast as they can, their head bent forward, as if urged on some pressing affair.
    ET7 5.123 17 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
    ET12 5.208 16 ...at the universities, it is urged that all goes to form what England values as the flower of its national life,--a well-educated gentleman.
    ET15 5.264 12 [The London Times] first denounced and then adopted the new French Empire, and urged the French Alliance and its results.
    Pow 6.61 15 A timid man...observing...sectional interests urged with a fury which shuts its eyes to consequences...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Wth 6.96 5 Men are urged by their ideas to acquire the command over nature.
    Bhr 6.191 15 ...What man is irresistibly urged to say, helps him and us.
    Civ 7.20 17 The Indian is gloomy and distressed when urged to depart from his habits and traditions.
    Elo1 7.82 16 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid, Ximenes urged that an advantage might be gained of France...
    PC 8.208 16 Observe the marked ethical quality of the innovations urged or adopted [in America].
    Supl 10.174 11 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
    LLNE 10.347 20 ...truly I honor the generous ideas of the Socialists, the magnificence of their theories and the enthusiasm with which they have been urged.
    MMEm 10.406 14 Scorn trifles, lift your aims...these were the lessons which were urged [by Mary Moody Emerson] with vivacity...
    SlHr 10.448 18 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to such political activities as a strong sense of duty and the love of order and of freedom urged him to forward.
    Thor 10.463 10 ...when some one urged a vegetable diet, Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter...
    EWI 11.113 24 The apprenticeship system [in the West Indies] is understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham, and was by him urged on his colleagues...
    EWI 11.128 21 The extent of the [British] empire, and the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery] in balance, and prevent it from...being urged with that intemperance which a question of property tends to acquire.
    ACiv 11.308 3 Why should not America be capable...of an affirmative step in the interests of human civility, urged on her...by her own extreme perils?
    Wom 11.405 5 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.
    Wom 11.421 4 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;...
    Shak1 11.449 17 ...we have already seen the most fantastic theories plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the authors of [Shakespeare' s] plays.
    CInt 12.127 3 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...here the highest duties be urged...

urgencies, n. (1)

    ET3 5.38 1 I reply to all the urgencies that refer me to this and that object indispensably to be seen,--Yes, to see England well needs a hundred years;...

urgent, adj. (3)

    WD 7.174 1 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]! The events they bring...their urgent work, all throw dust in the eyes and distract attention.
    Cour 7.263 10 Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty...
    HDC 11.73 20 This little battalion [of minute-men], though in their hasty council some were urgent to stand their ground, retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...

urges, v. (8)

    Wth 6.88 14 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf. Then...she urges him to the acquisition of such things as belong to him.
    PC 8.226 8 The benefactors we have indicated were...great because exceptional. The question which the present age urges with increasing emphasis...is, whether the high qualities which distinguished them can be imparted.
    PPo 8.245 18 On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of circumstance; hence it is that the horseman of life urges on his courser at headlong speed.
    EPro 11.316 17 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator...having run over the superficial fitness and commodities of the measure he urges... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    SMC 11.361 26 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...urges their correspondence with their friends;...
    FRep 11.515 12 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for, and the mainspring that works daily urges them to hazard all...the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.524 18 Whilst each cabal urges its candidate...the good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...
    WSL 12.343 16 Raphael and Homer feel that action is pitiful beside their enchantments. They could act too, if the stake was worthy of them: but now all that is good in the universe urges them to their task.

urging, v. (5)

    LT 1.277 16 Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men...
    Suc 7.311 10 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him to put himself forward...
    EWI 11.115 26 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged...urging [the people] to the attainment of that higher liberty with which Christ maketh his children free.
    SMC 11.362 1 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...writes news of them home, urging his own correspondent to visit their families...
    Wom 11.416 21 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman; urging, by argument and by association, her rights of all kinds...

Uriel, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.172 6 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet. I think if we should be rapt away into all that and dream of heaven, and should converse with Gabriel and Uriel, the upper sky would be all that would remain of our furniture.
    Res 8.140 23 By his machines man...can see the system of the universe like Uriel...

urn, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.247 4 Treacherous heart,/ My hand shall cast thee quick into my urn,/ Ere thou transgress this knot of piety./

urns, n. (3)

    SR 2.71 18 ...[man's genius] goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.
    Thor 10.460 1 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans, their funereal urns...
    FRep 11.511 19 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases, urns water-pots...

usage, n. (30)

    AmS 1.82 11 ...I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day...
    LE 1.157 15 ...men here...prefer...any usage...to the unproductive service of thought.
    MR 1.231 23 ...in the Spanish islands the venality of the officers of the government has passed into usage...
    MR 1.248 7 ...we are...to clear ourselves of every usage which has not its roots in our own mind.
    Con 1.295 9 The battle...of old usage and accommodation to new facts... reappears in all countries and times.
    Con 1.312 3 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command;...
    Tran 1.356 12 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect to this institution and that usage;...which they resist as what does not concern them.
    YA 1.366 9 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment, which...has interrogated every...usage...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    Comp 2.119 12 ...compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
    Cir 2.304 10 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance,--as for instance...a local usage...to heap itself on that ridge...
    Art1 2.353 8 ...[a man] cannot wipe out from his work every trace of the thoughts amidst which it grew. The very avoidance betrays the usage he avoids.
    Mrs1 3.120 18 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which, without written laws or exact usage of any kind, perpetuates itself...
    Pol1 3.199 6 ...every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case;...
    NER 3.258 17 ...by a wonderful drowsiness of usage [the ancient languages] had exacted the study of all men.
    SwM 4.145 7 Do not rely...on prudence, on common sense, the old usage and main chance of men...
    GoW 4.274 9 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself, by tracing the pedigree of every usage and practice...home to its origin in the structure of man.
    ET5 5.75 10 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...had managed to make the victor speak the language and accept the law and usage of the victim;...
    ET6 5.110 9 Antiquity of usage is sanction enough [in England].
    ET6 5.114 25 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk].
    ET14 5.254 17 ...parochial and shop-till politics, and idolatry of usage, betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
    Bhr 6.169 22 Manners are the happy way of doing things; each, once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
    CbW 6.253 11 There will not be a practice or an usage introduced [wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers], of which [the fools] are not the authors.
    Art2 7.45 19 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as the usage of building all Roman churches in the form of a cross...
    CSC 10.376 12 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of parliamentary usage;...
    LS 11.19 3 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us. Whatever long usage and strong association may have done in some individuals to deaden this repulsion, I apprehend that their use is rather tolerated than loved by any of us.
    LS 11.21 11 ...it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to [Christianity]...
    EWI 11.106 24 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost;...
    EPro 11.319 23 ...slavery overpowers the disgust of the moral sentiment only through immemorial usage.
    ChiE 11.473 23 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same. Well, China has preceded us...in this essential correction of a reckless usage;...
    Bost 12.184 1 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.

usages, n. (17)

    LE 1.159 13 ...the new man must feel that he...has not come into the world mortgaged to the opinions and usages of Europe...
    MR 1.228 20 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state... domestic usages...
    MR 1.232 11 ...I will not pry into the usages of our retail trade.
    Con 1.304 10 There is a natural sentiment and prepossession in favor...of barbarous and aboriginal usages...
    YA 1.380 23 These [Communities] proceeded...from an impatience of many usages in common life...
    SR 2.54 5 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.
    Art1 2.353 3 No man can...produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages and arts of his time shall have no share.
    Exp 3.68 6 All good conversation, manners and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages...
    Pol1 3.204 2 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property, and such a structure given to our usages as allowed the rich to encroach on the poor...
    NR 3.231 26 How wise the world appears, when the laws and usages of nations are largely detailed...
    ET9 5.146 21 [The Englishman] sticks to his traditions and usages...
    ET11 5.185 3 For the rest, the [English] nobility have the lead...in questions of taste, in social usages...
    Boks 7.214 6 ...books that...distribute things, not after the usages of America and Europe but after the laws of right reason...put us on our feet again...
    Aris 10.49 16 I think that the community-every community, if obstructing laws and usages are removed-will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...
    SovE 10.190 3 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and embodies itself in usages...
    SlHr 10.447 3 [Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the simple usages of his church;...
    Thor 10.458 22 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books to resident graduates...

Usages, n. (1)

    LT 1.269 9 The leaders of the crusades against War...Usages of trade...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...

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