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English
Etymology
From un- + sunned.
Adjective
unsunned (not comparable)
- Not having been exposed to the sun.
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] I thought her
As chaste as unsunn’d snow.
1878, John Addington Symonds, “In the Inn at Berchtesgaden”, in Many Moods: A Volume of Verse, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 41:[…] but day by day
Life brings you nothing new or bright:
The bloom of boyhood dies away;
And youth, unsunned by youth’s delight,
Yields place to manhood tame and drear—
Blank year succeeding to blank year.
1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr. Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house.