unwonted
IPA: ʌnwɑntɪd
adjective
- Not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.
- (archaic) Unused (to); unaccustomed (to) something.
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Examples of "unwonted" in Sentences
- In a moment, however, all the unwonted sensations were gone.
- My pulse rushed up in an unwonted manner, yet my rage mounted with it.
- I to know that his willingness to talk was most unwonted and was where the liquor gave him away.
- He recalled the unwonted agitation of Captain Vere and his excited exclamations so at variance with his normal manner.
- But the next instant, one of the boatmen, placidly lighting his pipe, was startled by an unwonted harshness in his captain's voice.
- Tertullian seems to have often found it necessary to coin unwonted forms of expression, or rather to invent an ecclesiastical nomenclature.
- But whensoever the call came, being so constituted, it was manifest that he should adapt, should adjust himself to the unwonted pressure of new conditions.
- And here on the crest, three hours afterward, he emerged, tired and sweaty, garments torn and face and hands scratched, but with sparkling eyes and an unwonted zestfulness of expression.
- Then, with the waywardness of action which thought and feeling often take in unwonted situations, she began to wonder whether it could be right to be there – not only for her, but for anybody.
- The same day shee was agen taken with a new kind of unwonted fitt, in which, after shee had bin awhile exercised with violence shee got her a sheet [?] & went up & downe, thrusting & pushing, here & there, & anon looking out at a window, & cryed
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