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UNWRITTEN

\ʌnɹˈɪtən], \ʌnɹˈɪtən], \ʌ_n_ɹ_ˈɪ_t_ə_n]\

Definitions of UNWRITTEN

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2011 - English Dictionary Database
2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary

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based on custom rather than documentation; "an unwritten law"; "rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"- J.L.T.C.Spence

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

based on custom rather than documentation; "an unwritten law"; "rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"- J.L.T.C.Spence

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

Not expressed or recorded in writing; verbal; due to custom or tradition.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

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