unrisen
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7.8
- adjective
- As the night deepened, the air was still and calm, with only the promise of the unrisen moon to light the way.
Examples
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The sky was dark and filled with stars, awaiting the emergence of the unrisen moon.
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He immediately began to breathe easier, his fear subsiding, as he saw not Christ splitting the heavens asunder but a shaft of amber light from the as-yet-unrisen sun illuminating a cloudbank.
Fiction book (1998) -
Risen yet unrisen.
Fiction book (1990) -
In the quiet of the early morning, the landscape was shrouded in shadows, marked by the unrisen sun on the horizon.
Synonyms
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9.9
Something that has not happened or started yet
Antonyms
How Risen
Surface Forms
Morphology
unrisen = risen (transparent) = un + rise + en
The phrase 'the sun has risen' is standard; 'un-' simply negates this state, so the compound is literal and guessable.
Etymology
Unrisen joins un- 'not' with rise 'to come up', the same rise you find in sunrise. So an unrisen sun or moon is 'not yet come up' above the horizon.