unreclaimed
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unreclaimed (comparative more unreclaimed, superlative most unreclaimed)
- Not reclaimed.
- 1858, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858[1]:
- It is a creek only by courtesy or an Americanism, at the present day; but when those miles of fertile fields upon the north were unreclaimed, the dank herbage hindered evaporation, and Easton's Pond was fed by unfailing streams.
- 1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo[2]:
- Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive.