unrisen
- adjective
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no salido
- 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
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.