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English
Etymology
From Middle English unwrought, unwroght, unwrouȝt, equivalent to un- + wrought. Doublet of unworked.
Adjective
unwrought (comparative more unwrought, superlative most unwrought)
- In the native state, before being worked on; especially used of bars of bullion and other metal
Translations
in its native state, before being worked on
Verb
unwrought
- simple past and past participle of unwork
c. 1845-46, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, in 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. […]