Associations to the word «Unreconstructed»

Wiktionary

UNRECONSTRUCTED, adjective. Not reconstructed.
UNRECONSTRUCTED, adjective. Unreconciled to social or cultural change; particularly with respect to the Reconstruction after the American Civil War.

Dictionary definition

UNRECONSTRUCTED, adjective. Adhering to an attitude or position widely held to be outmoded; "peasants are still unreconstructed small capitalists at heart"; "there are probably more unreconstructed Southerners than one would like to admit".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats