1. hewn - Adjective
2. hewn - Verb
Derived from hew
4. hewn - Adjective Satellite
of Hew
Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.
Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it. Glenn Gould
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. Arne Jacobsen
I spoke with him [Brandeis] at length, in German. I saw he's a very great man who can't bear injustice being done to anyone, anywhere...His soul is hewn of the purest marble. Louis Brandeis
The work grows "stone upon stone" (additive) or The block is hewn "chip from chip" (subtractive) Both processes, building and reducing, are time bound. Paul Klee
Our crosses are hewn from different trees. American Proverb
Our crosses are hewn from different trees. Albanian Proverb