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ungirt
[ uhn-gurt ]
adjective
- having a girdle loosened or removed.
- slack; relaxed; not taut or pulled together:
ungirt thinking.
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Bareheaded and ungirt, the candidate is conducted before the dread tribunal.
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Alike in life and in art he hated sloth,—the slovenliness of the "ungirt loin" and of the indecisive touch.
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When there was work to be done she never could rest with “unlit lamp and ungirt loin.”
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Ungirt, unblest, says the proverb; but my girdle shall serve for a riding knot; and a fig for all the witches in Christendom!
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Pardon for the ungirt loin, for the service shirked, for all good deeds undone!
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