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unaˈttainted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Unstained, unspotted; free from blemish.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. ii. 90 With vnattainted eye, Compare her face with some that I shall show. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 274 [The catholics] liue in sorrow, heauiness, and suspition had of their vnattainted loyalties in generall, for some priuate offences in speciall. 1641Milton Reform. ii. Wks. 1851 III. 54 To..ingage the unattainted Honour of English Knighthood..for so unworthy a purpose. 1716Swift Misc. Poems, To Earl of Oxford 8 Virtue repuls't, yet knows not to repine; But shall with unattainted Honour shine. 1845Hirst Com. Mommoth, etc. 44 That bears on high in knightly fight An unattainted crest.
2. Not attainted in law.
1794W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumbld. I. 378 Whereupon it was adjudged that the title remained unattainted. 1821Byron Two Foscari i. i, Wouldst thou have His state descend to his children, as it must, If he die unattainted? |