unfamed

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ famed.

Adjective

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unfamed (comparative more unfamed, superlative most unfamed)

  1. Not famed.
    • 1889, George Borrow, The Death of Balder[1]:
      Ere that, I'll perish here, unfamed, forgotten!
    • 1922, Edited by James Weldon Johnson, The Book of American Negro Poetry[2]:
      O black slave singers, gone, forgot, unfamed, You--you alone, of all the long, long line Of those who've sung untaught, unknown, unnamed, Have stretched out upward, seeking the divine.