What does unhandseled mean?
Unhandseled means (obsolete) unused; untouched; pure.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(obsolete) unused; untouched; pure.
Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandseled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and berserkers, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.
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Unhandseled means (obsolete) unused; untouched; pure.
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Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandseled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and berserkers, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.
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