unpent

adj

unpent

adj

Etymology From un- + pent. Compare Old English onpennad (“unpent, open”).

1

Not pent or pent up, unconfined, released.

  • Not with the rage with which this whirlwind blows, Joust warring winds, north, south, and east, unpent.1831, William Stewart Rose, Orlando Furioso:
  • And there, unpent by mountains, one saw the sky—the sky, not such a disc as one saw it here, but an arch of immeasurable blue, a deep of deeps in which the circling stars were floating...1911, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories:

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