unrebuilt
/ʌnɹiˈbɪlt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not rebuilt.
adj
Not rebuilt.
Example Sentences
- "Long had St. Paul look’d dovvnvvard from the Sky, / To ſee his fav’rite Pile [St. Paul’s Cathedral] unfiniſh’d lie; / And ev’n in fair Auguſta’s Boſom plac’d, / Its Altars unrebuilt, its Shrines defac’d."
- "The old Pariſh Church of St. John Zachary near adjoyning, in St. Annes-lane, being unrebuilt, and converted into a burial Place for the old Pariſh, vvas by Act of Parliament annexed to this [the parish church of Sts. Anne and Agnes]; […]"
- "[I]f Americans are true to themselves, posterity will never read their history in ruins unrebuilt, but will read it rather as we read nature's works, by a gradually passing away of old, though useful things, and a gradual, yet certain substitution of new things, still more useful, beautiful, glorious and complete."
- "Near-synonym: unoverhauled"
- "Finally, a note from Mr. D. G. Selwyn to point out that the run of his timing behind "Merchant Navy" Pacific No. 35005 Canadian Pacific, also described in January, on which a fine performance was achieved with a 460-ton load on a day of very bad weather, was with the engine in its unrebuilt and not its rebuilt form, and thus was all the more creditable to the unnamed engine-crew concerned."
- "Only two unrebuilt "Patriots", Nos. 45543/50, were active from Carnforth by the end of June; 11 more of this type have been withdrawn."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʌnɹiˈbɪlt/
- British English: /ʌnɹiːˈbɪlt/