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unˈstained, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not stained or (dis)coloured; spotless, clean, pure.
1555in Feuillerat Revels Q. Mary (1914) 182 The same white cloth of sylver vnstayned. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. ii. 114 Th' vnstained Sword that you haue vs'd to beare. 1629Milton Hymn Nativ. iv, The hooked Chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood. 1736Thomson Liberty v. 556 Languedocian skies, That, unstain'd ether all, diffusive smile. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 24 By sighs unruffled or unstain'd by tears. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xiv. 97 The unstained blue of heaven. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 903 An unstained or faintly stained zone..across the bacillus. 1918Heal & Son Catal.: Cottage Furnit. 3 This furniture is left quite plain, unstained and unpolished. 1936‘N. Blake’ Thou Shell of Death ii. 27 A cream-washed bedroom, furnished..with unstained oak.
2. Not morally stained or sullied; unblemished, untarnished.
1573J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (ed. 2) 84 The Byshops began to defile the Lordes supper and other vnstained doctrines of fayth. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. x, Any sparkes of unstained duety lefte in them towardes me. 1624Quarles Job xv. 19 Preserue he then, vnstained in his brest, A milke⁓white Conscience. 1689D. Granville Lett. (Surtees) 81 The consideration whereof hath..kept me untainted and unstained. 1744Thomson Spring 761 The towering Seat..of his Empire; which, in Peace, Unstain'd he holds. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Epist. ii. ii. 196 A Person, who maintain'd A due Decorum, and a Life unstain'd. 1813Shelley Q. Mab vii. 236 No year of my eventful being Has passed unstained by crime and misery. 1863Mrs. H. Wood Verner's Pride xviii, He was proud of his independence, his unstained name.
Hence unˈstainedness.
1685H. More Paralip. Prophet. 327 Sacerdotal,..because of the unstainedness of their condition as to Externals. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Pureness,..Unspottedness, Unstainedness. |