unforeign

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ foreign.

Adjective

unforeign (comparative more unforeign, superlative most unforeign)

  1. (uncommon) Not foreign.
    • 1896, Bert Leston Taylor, Alvin T. Thoits, Under Three Flags: A Story of Mystery, page 198:
      “Your English, too, is as pure as a New Yorker's—or perhaps I should say as unforeign. Pure English is not a drug in the New York market.”
    • 1924, Charles Edward Montague, The Right Place: A Book of Pleasures, London: Chatto & Windus, page 93:
      Water rippling and shining, fringed with inviolate trees, the unshelled houses gleaming white and red among them: England ten times herself, intoxicatingly unforeign. And the English trains, smooth movers along well-weeded tracks […]
    • 1991, Robert Sward, Four Incarnations: New & Selected Poems, 1957-1991, Minneapolis, Minn.: Coffee House Press:
      Song: "There's No War Like Civil War"
      O the Civil War's the only war,
      the only war, the only war;
      the finest war,
      yes, the noblest most unforeign war,
      […] that ever I did see.
    • 1964, Commonwealth Challenge:
      And of course we must add that all of us, citizens of the Commonwealth, ought to feel as 'unforeign' in each other's countries, whether old or newly independent, as we do in our own.

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