unrisen

English

Etymology

un- +‎ risen

Adjective

unrisen (not comparable)

  1. Not risen.
    • 1909, Basil King, The Inner Shrine‎:
      High above all else, the domes of the Sacred Heart were white with the rays of the unrisen sun, like those of the City which came down from God. It was so different from the cheerful Paris of broad daylight that she was drawing back with a shudder, when over the Pont de la Concorde she discerned the approach of a motor-brougham.
    • 1918, May Sinclair, The Tree of Heaven‎:
      It went now between long straight ramparts of hills that showed enormous and dark against a sky cleared to twilight by the unrisen moon.

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