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unmeasured

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ measured.

Adjective

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unmeasured (comparative more unmeasured, superlative most unmeasured)

  1. Not having been measured.
    • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “To My Sister”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 5:
      Recall the gradual dark the snow’s unmeasured fall / The naked fields the cloud’s immaculate folds
  2. Beyond measure; vast; measureless.
    the unmeasured expanse of the ocean
    • 1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, [], London: [] Nicholas Okes, [], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:
      She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / [] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.
  3. Unrestrained; without moderation or deliberation.
    the hasty, unmeasured speech of the defendant

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