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Etymology

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un- +‎ brooked

Adjective

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unbrooked (not comparable)

  1. Not brooked.
    • 2013, Jeremiah L. Alberg, Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses: Reading Scandalous Texts:
      The "supreme idea of the world," the "unbrooked effusion of the unconscious will," is violence .
    • 2019, Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard, page 26:
      Unaligned, nobly interventionist, unbrooked by nations and political parties, private interests or public exhaustion, Amnesty International declares states, walls, borders irrelevant to its humanitarian goals, detrimental to its tasks, by summoning responsibility and refusing to accept a myopic government's own narrative of its behavior.

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