unpeopled
Etymology Adjective
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Etymology Adjective
unpeopled (not comparable)
- Not inhabited by people.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC ↗, page 105 ↗:
- Still, one mansion, which the time ought to have unpeopled, was evidently inhabited; and in one of its rooms—small, but luxurious enough for a sultana in the Arabian Nights, or a young gentleman of the present day—were seated two persons in earnest conversation.
- 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC ↗:
- I look out at the sunrise--that fateful sunrise which will shine upon an unpeopled world.
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