unhearing

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

verb

present participle and gerund of unhear

"[She] flung herself / Down on the great King's couch, and writhed upon it, / And clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm, / And shriek'd out 'traitor' to the unhearing wall, […]"
"Camille said, as if unhearing, "Of course Apollo isn't with us permanently, you know!""

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English hearing English unhearing From un- + hearing.

unhearingly

hearing

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