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unˈhardened, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
fig.1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. i. 35 Messengers Of strong preuailment in vnhardned youth. 1608H. Clapham Errour Right Hand A 4 If thine heart be vn-hardned, it will easily ioyne with mee. 1619[see unhatched2]. 1747Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. 26 After you have heard what your friends shall further urge in his behalf, unhardened by clandestine correspondencies. 1792F. Burney Diary V. 390 The few unhardened in crimes. 1821Southey in Life A. Bell (1844) III. 630 Preserving his heart the while unstained and unhardened. 1846Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. I. 249/2 The studious, the enthusiastic, the unhardened in politics.
lit.1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 349/1 An intermediate layer of unhardened epiderm. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 6 Unhardened springs do not accelerate. |