unfaced

[ uhn-feyst ]

adjective

, Crystallography.

1. without crystal faces.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unfaced¹

First recorded in 1930–35; un- ¹ + faced

Example Sentences

The high ideals which, while unfaced with any great issue, she had cherished with unconscious hypocrisy failed her in the stress of her need.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, constrained neither by the depression spawned of unfaced problems or subdued emotions, the world appeared as it should; I had drawn out all of the hob-goblins that my mind repressed, and scourged them.

From Project Gutenberg

Until Europe itself and the remainder of the world faced that unfaced question, no plan for Germany could be either intelligent or complete.

From Time Magazine Archive

Making his Manhattan rounds, from a 9 a.m. appointment at Gracie Mansion with Mayor Robert Wagner, to lunch at Hampshire House with Prendergast and De Sapio, to a sundown session in Lehman's Park Avenue apartment, to a midnight dinner with Anthony Akers, perennial candidate for Congress in the rich, Republican, silk-stocking district of Manhattan, Bobby left no faction unfaced.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was not the finished brick of to-day but rough and unfaced.

From Project Gutenberg