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English
Etymology
From un- + sifted.
Adjective
unsifted (not comparable)
- Not having been sifted.
If you bake with unsifted flour you don't know how much you are using because it might be packed down or very fluffy.
- (archaic, figurative) Inexperienced; untried, unscrutinized.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] You speak like a green girl,
Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
- 1765, George Colman, The Comedies of Terence, Translated into Familiar Blank Verse, London: T. Becket & P. A. De Hondt, 2nd edition, 1768, Volume I, Preface, p. xxxii,
- But each man’s understanding, such as it is, must be his guide; and he, who has not courage to make a free use of it, but obtrudes the opinions of others, unsifted and unexamined, on his readers, betrays more want of respect for their understanding, than diffidence of his own.
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