Word Finder - unseen

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Not seen or discovered; invisible.

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Unskilled; inexperienced.

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Not hitherto noticed; unobserved.

Forests and fields beyond the camp, unseen before, were now visible in the distance.

The unseen creature placed a plate of food beside her.

He tried to pass either in front of them or to the right or left, but there were soldiers everywhere, all with the same preoccupied expression and busy with some unseen but evidently important task.

The water must in ritual washings run off in order to carry away the miasma or unseen demon of disease; and accordingly in baptism the early Christians used living or running water.

They could not see the horses, but only heard them splashing through the unseen mud.

To her surprise an unseen hand clutched her and held her suspended in the air.

The return trip took them past Bascomb Place and as they rounded the corner, Fred yelled "Stop!" so violently Dean thought he was about to run down an unseen nun.

With an intense capacity for visualizing the unseen, and a kindly dignity, he combined a large sense of humour.

Hutton as "unequalled for grandeur of outline, purity of taste and radiance of total effect"; while his latest and longest, "The Dream of Gerontius," is generally recognized as the happiest effort to represent the unseen world that has been made since the time of Dante.

A lesson in geometry, given by Ostilio Ricci to the pages of the grand-ducal court, chanced, tradition avers, to have Galileo for an unseen listener; his attention was riveted, his dormant genius was roused, and he threw all his energies into the new pursuit thus unexpectedly presented to him.

Along with these reasons would co-operate towards the exclusion of visible aids to devotion, not only the church's sacramental use of Christ's name as a name of power, and its living sense of his continued real though unseen presence, but also, during the first years, its constant expectation of his second advent as imminent.

A'Ran's low voice came to her through the unseen speaker.

The term may, however, be conveniently used to describe the early stage of religion in which man endeavours to set up relations between himself and the unseen powers, conceived as spirits, but differing in many particulars from the gods of polytheism.

Faraday's mind, however, revolted against this notion; he felt intuitively that these distance actions must be the result of unseen operations in the interposed medium.

Aside from the infrequent sound of a passing car on the avenue, only the murmur of unseen waves lapping at the sand broke the stillness.

Two years later he took up Calvert's work on the former site, and, convinced that Troy must be on the lowest level, hewed his way down, regardless of the upper strata, wherein lay unseen the remains of which he was really in search.

All were conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all.

A yellowish glow emitted from some unseen light source in the grey walls reminded her of a late winter afternoon that never ended.

Dean leaned over and grasped the taut line that ran unseen over the edge.

He moved closer to her in case the unseen threat attacked, hands on the hilts of his daggers.

He believed in the spiritual and unseen rather than in the outward and visible unity of Christendom.

His last start came when he sailed, unseen by Nelson, on the 30th of March.

Three extraordinary instances are produced by his friends and followers in proof of his seership and admission into the unseen world.

The self-taught alto saxophonist's debut album Conversations With the Unseen uniquely mixes post bop jazz and rap with ease.

Meridian systems are designed so that they can be mounted virtually unseen in video walls with the electronics rack mounted in standard formats.

They were cash transactions, bought sight unseen, no returns allowed.

They now bade farewell to the kind but unseen people of the cottage, and after the man had called their attention to a high, pyramid-shaped mountain on the opposite side of the Valley, and told them how to travel in order to reach it, they again started upon their journey.

And some years pass during which he plays a pitiful comedy to himself in solitude on his island, justifying his actions by intrigues and lies when the justification is no longer needed, and displaying to the whole world what it was that people had mistaken for strength as long as an unseen hand directed his actions.

Avoid buying a vintage piece sight unseen, such as online.

If you did it right, the ball will go down the rail, setting off an unseen explosive.

You may not want to make permanent living arrangements sight unseen, so staying temporarily in a hotel might be the best option.

The unseen entity identified herself as "Kate".

The two ladies had joined Fred in the parlor where he was showing them the letters they had purchased from him, sight unseen.

A day later he called again, saying he had driven by the place and was willing to take it, sight unseen.

He eluded the Confederate lookout and reached the "Albemarle" unseen.

They further say, govern and regulate your feelings, discharge your duties to God and to man, and you will gain everlasting blessedness; purify your heart, cultivate devotional feelings and you will see Him who is unseen.

He had often spoken of his daughter Jane to Herbert, and "so much commended Mr Herbert to her, that Jane became so much a Platonic as to fall in love with Mr Herbert unseen."

Hirata answered by anticipation the modern reproach against Shinto, founded on the absence of any definite morality connected with it, by laying down the simple rule, " Act so that you need not be ashamed before the Kami of the unseen."

The Silurian genera Eucladia and Euthemon have the rays greatly reduced and merged in the disk, so that the ambulacrals are unseen.

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring, of striking military energy, initiative and resource; a high, pure and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

World class vistas, trickling silver rivers of high snow melt-off, sky as blue as a queen's velvet robe, and the green and grey of forest and rock towering in every direction—all went unseen.

She sensed the unseen scars of war and strife, the price of Anshan's struggle, buried deep beneath the surface of the hardened man before her.

In fact they were experiencing a complete range of unseen emotions from hysteria, through delight to utter despair.

I don't pretend to understand the alchemy that inspires an audience to chase after one film sight unseen, and not another.

Able to remain submerged for months at a time, conventionally armed nuclear powered attack submarines can cover a vast distance unseen and unheard.

Seconds later he too is murdered by an unseen assailant.

Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.

Here the dance takes off with everyday people entangled in vanity reflected in an unseen mirror.

Do not wade through high floodwaters; manhole covers may have lifted, leaving deep and dangerous unseen holes.

The release also includes unseen footage of three songs.