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undeˈpraved, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not morally depraved or corrupted; not lowered in character or tone.
1646–7J. Hall Poems 95 There did he loose his snowy Innocence, His undepraved will. 1660Stanley Hist. Philos. xiii. (1687) 909/2 Thus doth every undepraved animal, its own nature judging incorruptly and entirely. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1703) 152 If we hearken to the undepraved suggestions of our minds. 1782V. Knox Ess. (1819) II. lxxi. 67 Who possess all the faculties of perception, in a state undepraved by artificial refinement. 1784Cowper Task i. 124 The palate, undeprav'd By culinary arts. 1826Q. Rev. XXXIII. 283 Men whose sense of right and wrong is undepraved.
2. Not vitiated textually.
1686W. Hopkins tr. Ratramnus Dissert. ii. (1688) 33 Whether it [a book] be come pure and undepraved to our hands, I shall enquire in the next chapter. 1693J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. 53 These Masoretick Doctors..have kept it [sc. the Hebrew text] undepraved and uncorrupt.
Hence undeˈpravedness.
1723Mather Vind. Bible 337 The sense of the place pleads for the undepravedness of the Hebrew in this verse. |