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unˈborrowed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. obs. Da. uborget.]
Not borrowed or taken on loan; esp. fig., not adopted from another, native, inherent, original. (Common from c 1700.)
1638G. Daniel Eclog i. 256 Oh doe not thinke but She may be as faire In nature's bounties, with vnborrwed haire. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. iv. 52 The luxurious father of the fold, With native purple and unborrowed gold, Beneath his pompous fleece shall proudly sweat. 1704Moderat. Displ. ix, Bathillo, in his own unborrow'd Strains, Young Sacharissa's Angel Form profanes. 1742Richardson Pamela III. 325 For your Arguments are always new and unborrow'd. 1793W. Roberts Looker-on No. 43 (1794) II. 144 His taste was unborrowed, as well as the principles on which he supported it. 1828Ld. Grenville Sinking Fund 55 Every portion of unborrowed wealth which this fund has ever received. 1871Fraser Life Berkeley ix. 351 His unborrowed, evidently self-elaborated thought. |