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Grammar : Adj
Spell : ri-leev
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈliv

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Définition of unrelieved

Origin :
  • late 14c., "alleviate (pain, etc.), mitigate; afford comfort; allow respite; diminish the pressure of," also "give alms to, provide for;" also figuratively, "take heart, cheer up;" from Old French relever "to raise, relieve" (11c.) and directly from Latin relevare "to raise, alleviate, lift up, free from a burden," from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + levare "to lift up, lighten," from levis "not heavy" (see lever).
  • The notion is "to raise (someone) out of trouble." From c.1400 as "advance to the rescue in battle;" also "return from battle; recall (troops)." Meaning "release from duty" is from early 15c. Related: relieved; relieving.
  • adj utter
Example sentences :
  • And still there was no ray, nothing but unrelieved blackness.
  • Extract from : « Pirates of the Gorm » by Nat Schachner
  • She was dressed in white muslin, unrelieved by ornament or any suggestion of colour.
  • Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • The sky was unrelieved by any further flashes of light for many minutes.
  • Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • It was a toilsome and dreary march, unrelieved by aught to lessen the fatigue.
  • Extract from : « Arthur O'Leary » by Charles James Lever
  • Ten years of it—ten years of dogged work and unrelieved failure.
  • Extract from : « The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) » by Edith Wharton
  • In the unrelieved darkness of the night I slept there alone.
  • Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
  • It looked a desolation, a poignant gloom, an unrelieved sorrow.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • He wants the gloom of Haxard's death to remain in unrelieved inkiness at the end.
  • Extract from : « The Story of a Play » by W. D. Howells
  • Morton Eden's reports to Grenville form an unrelieved jeremiad.
  • Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
  • Not all the Orient has been given over to unrelieved despotism.
  • Extract from : « The New World of Islam » by Lothrop Stoddard
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