"unfinal" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more unfinal [comparative], most unfinal [superlative]
Etymology: From un- + final. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|final}} un- + final Head templates: {{en-adj}} unfinal (comparative more unfinal, superlative most unfinal)
  1. Not final; unresolved; inconclusive.
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          "ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter I, Aristocracies”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):",
          "text": "Huge French Revolutions, Napoleonisms, then Bourbonisms with their corollary of Three Days, finishing in very unfinal Louis-Philippisms: all this ought to be didactic! All this may have taught us, that False Aristocracies are insupportable; that No-Aristocracies, Liberty-and-Equalities are impossible […]",
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          "text": "So this was suicide. How unfinal it appeared to be.",
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          "ref": "2013, Maria Grazia Nicolosi, “'And to defeat that shadow…he had to take it in homeopathically, in minute quantities of conscious reparation': Adam Thorpe's Unsentimental Historical Romances”, in Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega, editors, Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature, Routledge, →ISBN, page 175:",
          "text": "This resistance, on the writer's part, could well account for his mildly enigmatic, unfinal and anti-climactic denouements, often narrativised as happy endings of sorts, without actually being felt to be so by the characters, not even ironically.",
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