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unsoˈphisticated, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Unmixed, unadulterated.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Begger Wks. i. 98/1 Vnsophisticated drinke, That neuer makes men stagger. 1664Boyle Exp. touching Colours 141 Take Blew, but Unsophisticated, Vitriol. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 17 He never wants for two Sorts of Liquors, the Good and the Bad;..and that to be sure unsophisticated with the other. 1861in Daily Chron. 12 Sept., An infusion made from the unsophisticated [tea-] leaves. 1894Cosmopolitan XVII. 128 Pure air and a sky unsophisticated with the lights and smokes of civilization.
2. Not tampered with, altered, or falsified; uncorrupted, genuine.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 438 They shall use the Sword of the Spirit,..which is unsophisticated Reason and Scripture. 1690D. Granville Lett. (Surtees) 234 This low ebb of pure unsophisticated devotion. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 128 We preserve the whole of our feelings still native and entire, unsophisticated by pedantry and infidelity. 1843[Mrs. Maitland] Lett. fr. Madras p. v, To give the correspondence in its genuine unsophisticated state. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 380 It was difficult to tell..which was the bottom of the canoe and which was the unsophisticated log.
3. Not sophisticated in habits, manners, or mind; natural, ingenuous, inexperienced.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. iii. 16 If some Ladies..were bound to change Dresses with this unsophisticated and unadorn'd Maid. 1668H. More Div. Dial. II. 362 They shall be..untainted and unsophisticated by the unwholesome Converse of men. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park xxiv, Her young, unsophisticated mind. 1854Thackeray Newcomes II. 118 What an unsophisticated little country creature you are! 1873Tristram Moab xiii. 234 Trotter..drew out the unsophisticated fish as fast as he could bait his hook.
Hence unsoˈphisticatedness.
1858Abp. Benson in Life (1899) I. 139 Some..footmen..took away my umbrella, but amazed my unsophisticatedness in making me keep my hat on my head. 1866Alger Solit. Nat. & Man iv. 336 To appreciate natural unsophisticatedness more highly, and conventionality more lowly. |