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Meanings of unshapen in English

Incompletely or imperfectly shaped.

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Examples for "unshaped"
1
The influence of his mind was like light gleaming through an unshaped world.
The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair / Or, True Stories from...
2
Their crania were doughy and distended, as if their unshaped brains bubbled over.
Iron Council
3
There was some unshaped alarm in them; and pain too.
Complete Books of Blood
4
Sometimes they even took unshaped rocks with them to make into tools later on.
A short history of nearly everything
5
It was merely an unshaped thought, the beginning of a desire created in my breast.
Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians
Usage of unshapen in English
1
It looked like a settler's shack, built of rough, unshapen logs and thatched with rushes.
Kimono
2
There was an ugly cloud on his broad brow as he dreamed of a yet unshapen crime.
The Midnight Passenger : A Novel
3
This was my dictionary of music, which my scattered, mutilated, and unshapen materials made it necessary to rewrite almost entirely.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 09
4
Nothing was discernible, save a flight of rough unshapen steps which sank into the yawning Gulph and were soon lost in darkness.
The Monk: A Romance
5
He sits aloft and sees across the ocean, and far away into the Unshapen Land.'
The Heroes; Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
6
And he turned neither to the right hand nor the left, till he came to the Unshapen Land, and the place which has no name.
Heroes Every Child Should Know
Unshapen through the time