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unˈhackneyed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not habituated by long practice; inexperienced. Const. in.
1759Sterne Tr. Shandy i. xi, In plain truth, he was a man unhackneyed and unpractised in the world. 1785G. A. Bellamy Apology III. 94, I was then unhackneyed in the villainies of mankind. 1814Scott Wav. xxxii, He had a sort of naiveté and openness of demeanour, that seemed to belong to one unhackneyed in the ways of intrigue.
absol.1796F. Burney Camilla III. 112 Public amusements, to the young and unhackneyed, give entertainment without requiring exertion.
2. Not rendered commonplace or stale by frequent use or contact.
1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 93 Her English was racy, unhackneyed, proper to the thought to a degree that only original thinking could give. 1856G. Brimley Ess. (1858) 236 To open to her almost untried and certainly unhacknied regions of beauty. 1880Academy 27 Nov. 390/1 His [picture]..shows a research after unhackneyed effects.
Hence unˈhackneyedness.
1884Saintsbury in Ward Eng. Poets III. 218 There is almost always something novel in his dressing up of his images and a suggestive unhackneyedness in their expression. |
