unsummered

English

Etymology

un- + summer + -ed

Adjective

unsummered (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Without summer or its warmth and joy; summerless.
    • c. 1917, W. B. Yeats, The Veiled Voices and the Questions of the Dark:
      Yon wretch of whom none speak,
      Hoarder of shame when she has lost the sun
      And her poor tragedy is o'er and done
      And sealed and finished her unsummered days []
    • c. 1965, Louis Daniel Brodsky, Reuben's: Early June Morning:
      The unsummered city shivers.
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