Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Not vanquished, beaten or conquered; unbeaten or unconquered
WordNet
adj. not conquered [syn: unbeaten, unconquered]
Wikipedia
Unvanquished or The Unvanquished may refer to:
- The Unvanquished, 1938 novel by American author William Faulkner
- Aparajito, also called The Unvanquished, 1956 Bengali-language Indian film
- The Unvanquished (film), 1964 French film noir, original title L'Insoumis
- "Unvanquished", episode of American science fiction TV series Caprica (See List of Caprica episodes)
- Unvanquished, a video game
Unvanquished is a free and open source multi-player team-based first-person shooter and real-time strategy game. A new alpha version is released on the first Sunday of every month.
Players fight in an alien or human team with respective melee and conventional ballistic weaponry. The aim of the game is to destroy the enemy team and the structures that keep them alive, as well as ensure one's own team's bases and expansions are maintained. Players earn resources for themselves and their team via aggression.
Unvanquished traces its game-play lineage from Tremulous, a now defunct open-source game that has had over 3 million downloads. The current gameplay and game resources are under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license whilst the daemon engine is under the GPL.
Usage examples of "unvanquished".
One problem worrying some of the reviewers was whether The Unvanquished is actually a novel.
The Unvanquished relates- to other Faulkner works by its themes and by many of its people, chiefly the Sartoris family, Ab Snopes, and the McCaslin twins.
Having chosen that warfare as the exciting backdrop for The Unvanquished, Faulkner writes of it well.
Dicky, unvanquished master of the nebulous answer on almost any subject except the gastronomic merits of expensive restaurants.
Nothing but to destroy his enemies, and live out his life in defiance, unvanquished and unawed.
But when he raised it again, unvanquished, his eyes caught a gleam of something bright and solid in the grass, as for a moment the moon shone down clear and unobstructed.
But, far from suffering their assault without resistance, He grappled with them and mastered them, stripping them of all the armor in which they trusted, and held them aloft in His mighty, out-stretched hands, displaying to the universe their helplessness and His own unvanquished strength.
She had no idea what kind of world I was living in, or what kind of forces were moving in me, unvanquished as yet by my inner legions.
From the face of the man who stood erect, unvanquished as yet in the struggle for life, the fierce sweat poured like rainhis older companion had sunk to the ground and the spasms of an ugly death were twitching at his whitening lips.
If the two northern Hordes, the Wilddog and the unvanquished tribes of the Grasshopper, stopped showing contempt for the conquered tribes, Jackrabbit and Grasshopper, he might be able to hold his head up in the world.
Oh, harsh the fate of this Manchegan lady and her knight, errant and unvanquished!
The Unvanquished relates to other Faulkner works by its themes and by many of its people, chiefly the Sartoris family, Ab Snopes, and the McCaslin twins.
In The Unvanquished William Faulkner drew on his family's history for more than events.
Having mentioned the people of the South in the Civil War and then' particular troubles during Reconstruction, William Faulkner went on to speak of man in general and to add that in his opinion art has one high purpose—which surely we may conclude that The Unvanquished serves: "I believe our country is even stronger because of that old anguish since that very anguish taught us compassion for other peoples whom war has injured.
As Meriwether has pointed out while noting its historical discrepancies, The Unvanquished is not primarily about the Civil War.