unwrought

English

unwrought (comparative more unwrought, superlative most unwrought)

In the native state, before being worked on; especially used of bars of bullion and other metal

in its native state, before being worked on

unwrought

simple past tense and past participle of unwork
- c. 1845-46, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, If Thou Must Love Me:
  […] Do not say / ‘I love her for her smile — her look — her way / Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought / That falls in well with mine, and certes brought / A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’ — / For these things in themselves, Beloved, may / Be changed, or change for thee, — and love so wrought, / May be unwrought so. […]

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