unchronicled
- adjective
- /ʌnˈkrɒnɪkəld/
- As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who, in primeval years, lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.
Examples
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Many ancient civilizations have left unchronicled histories that we may never fully understand.
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The unchronicled events of her childhood remain a mystery to her family.
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But what if the unchronicled dead were neither willing nor able to offer their accompaniment?
Academic text (2012) -
He trudged the whole wide hillside and found, everywhere, the ghastly dead, as if he had wandered onto some forgotten battleground of some unchronicled war.
Fiction book (1992) -
Explorers often encounter unchronicled cultures during their travels that have never been documented.
Synonyms
Not written down in official papers
Not written down or kept in official papers
Not written about in records of the past
No official source or written record confirms it
How Documented
Surface Forms
Morphology
unchronicled = chronicled (transparent) = un + chronicle + ed
'un-' negates the participial adjective 'chronicled', yielding the straightforward meaning 'not recorded'.
Etymology
The word unchronicled starts with un- meaning 'not' and contains chron- meaning 'time', the same root in chronicle which is a written 'record' of events. So an unchronicled event is one that was not written down or put into the record.