unuplifted

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ uplifted.

Adjective

unuplifted (not comparable)

1. (poetic or archaic) Not uplifted; downcast.
   • 1825, John Wilson, Poems, volume 2, page 226:

     Through all the long day's stillness, lone and deep,
     Sitting, unwearied as the gladsome brook,
     That sings along with many a frolic leap,
     While earnestly his unuplifted look
     Lives on the yellow page of some old fairy book.

   • 1875, William Wordsworth, The Inner Vision:

     Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
     To pace the ground, if path be there or none,
     While a fair region round the traveller lies
     Which he forbears again to look upon;

   • 2014, Henry S. Salt, The Story of Aeneas: Virgil's Aeneid Translated Into English Verse, →ISBN, page 135:

     But she, averse, with unuplifted eyes,
     Heeded no more his speech than if she stood
     Carven of flint or hard Marpesian stone