Word: unworn
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...improve with age. This can hardly ever be said of machine-produced articles whose uniformity of texture and lack of vitality (and the same applies to pottery no less than to textiles) cause them to slak back into shabbiness and monotony the moment their novelty as fashions and their unworn freshness have departed...
...deep and lucid mind we mourn, An eye that on the sun of truth had gazed, Nor ever turned away like others dazed-- A soul that travelled over paths unworn, And searched the hidden deeps and knew no bourne, A soul that yet its glance in wonder raised, Like children at a miracle amazed, And plucked white flowers out of weed and thorn. We mourn, yet know that in a rarer clime He dwells with sages and with seraphim Free from the fetters and the weight of clay And from the passions of a gloomy time-- And we shall never...