Meaning of unrebuilt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not rebuilt.
   not-comparable
2. Of something damaged or destroyed: not built again, not reconstructed.
   not-comparable
3. Of something existing: not modified or renovated; still in its original form.
   not-comparable

Examples

“Long had St. Paul look’d dovvnvvard from the Sky, / To ſee his fav’rite Pile [St. Paul’s Cathedral] unfiniſh’d lie; / And ev’n in fair Auguſta’s Boſom plac’d, / Its Altars unrebuilt, its Shrines defac’d.”

“The old Pariſh Church of St. John Zachary near adjoyning, in St. Annes-lane, being unrebuilt, and converted into a burial Place for the old Pariſh, vvas by Act of Parliament annexed to this [the parish church of Sts. Anne and Agnes]; […]”

“[I]f Americans are true to themselves, posterity will never read their history in ruins unrebuilt, but will read it rather as we read nature's works, by a gradually passing away of old, though useful things, and a gradual, yet certain substitution of new things, still more useful, beautiful, glorious and complete.”

“Near-synonym: unoverhauled”

“Finally, a note from Mr. D. G. Selwyn to point out that the run of his timing behind "Merchant Navy" Pacific No. 35005 Canadian Pacific, also described in January, on which a fine performance was achieved with a 460-ton load on a day of very bad weather, was with the engine in its unrebuilt and not its rebuilt form, and thus was all the more creditable to the unnamed engine-crew concerned.”

“Only two unrebuilt "Patriots", Nos. 45543/50, were active from Carnforth by the end of June; 11 more of this type have been withdrawn.”

“This was one of sixty-five Karrier E6s fitted with Park Royal sixty-four-seat bodywork […] The unrebuilt examples were all withdrawn – with the exception of No 104 that was taken out of service in 1945 – between 1949 and 1956; the rebuilt examples were to follow between 1959 and 1962. Five of the unrebuilt examples were sold to Epsom & Ewell Council and converted into mobile temporary toilets.”

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