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Meanings of unplumbed in English

Situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed.

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Usage of unplumbed in English
1
Afraid of those unplumbed emotions, she closed her eyes and groaned aloud.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
2
Even in Felicity, so it would seem, there were depths of thought unplumbed.
The Story Girl
3
Thus the idealist, out of a depth of wretchedness and self-exprobration hitherto unplumbed.
The Price
4
Did those ancient, unplumbed warrens teem with a twisted, uncatalogued, and unsuspected life?
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
5
Less ambitious than Wang, the film neither strains for unplumbed depths nor all-encompassing breadth.
Reuters
6
We all contain something of that perilous ingredient which belongs to the unplumbed depths.
The Complex Vision
7
Justice is not done to the versatility and the unplumbed childishness of man's imagination.
Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays
8
The cloud surged around it like an unplumbed sea.
The Rim of the Desert
9
Love had sounded depths hitherto unplumbed; a quick, soft impulsiveness made the contrast sharp and vivid.
The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel
10
Foster had had his hour; and, at this final moment, he sounded those hitherto unplumbed depths.
The Rim of the Desert
11
Such was Bryan Summerhay at the age of twenty-six, his wisdom-teeth to cut, his depths unplumbed.
Beyond
12
Was there some unplumbed depth in her make-up?
Harvest Home
13
Men knew not even whether it were round or flat; and the unplumbed sea could still estrange.
The Age of Erasmus / Lectures Delivered in the Universities of O...
14
He stood for something outside it, something outside himself, something large, vague, turbulent, untried, unplumbed, unknown-thePeople.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
15
He saw the glamor, the humor, the tragedy, the contrasts, the emotional depths-thatlay unplumbed beneath it all.
Marse Henry (Volume 2) / An Autobiography
16
And like a wounded hawk, dying even as it struggled, the Pauillac staggered wildly down the unplumbed abyss.
Darkness and Dawn
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