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undisˈguised, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.) a. Of things.
a1500Chaucer's Dreme 1450 The prince,..in plaine English undisguised, Hem shewed hole his journeye. 1656[see unartificial a. 2]. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. vii, The naked and undisguised practice of real Godliness. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1709) 165 By parity of Reason, we may court undisguised Ruin. 1726Pope Odyss. xvii. 18 The very truth I undisguised declare. 1828Lytton Pelham III. iii, A friendly dinner, a family meal, are things from which I fly with undisguised aversion. 1873Holland A. Bonnic. i. 19 With ingenuous and undisguised wonder.
b. Of persons.
1671Milton P.R. i. 357 Whom thus answer'd th' Arch Fiend now undisguis'd. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iii. (1840) 79 He did not walk about in person, undisguised and open,..and acting like himself. 1796F. Burney Camilla III. 383 The declared and undisguised pursuer of her favour. 1827Pollok Course T. viii. 137 Each,..undisguised, was what his seeming showed.
Hence undisˈguisedness.
1814Shelley in Hogg Life (1858) II. 494 It proves..the sincerity, undisguisedness, of your passion. |