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unaˈlloyed, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
fig.a1672Sterry Freed. Will (1675) 9 Being it self in its absoluteness,..unalloyed by any differences of mixtures. 1737West Let. in Gray's Poems (1775) 27 Four-and-twenty hours of pure unalloy'd health together. 1796F. Burney Camilla V. 183 A pity..unalloyed with any blame. 1860Motley Netherl. vi. (1868) I. 358 There is hardly a character in history upon which the imagination can dwell with more unalloyed delight. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 131 The purest religious influences, unalloyed by superstition.
lit.1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1792) V. 216 A coffin of unalloyed and beaten silver. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 385 Iron..is capable of acquiring magnetism, though in its unalloyed state it retains it only a very short time. |