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unˈtinctured, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. fig. Untinged, uncoloured, unaffected. Const. by or with.
1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. lxvi, Simple gratitude, untinctured with love. 1769E. Bancroft Guiana 329 They are not untinctured with vanity. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. II. 397 [Zebras] caught sufficiently young, so as to be untinctured by their original state of wildness. 1801Lusignan I. 113 A degree of awe..not untinctured with [fear]. 1866Q. Rev. Apr. 327 Oracles of the common law, but untinctured by scholarship. 1874H. Rogers Orig. Bible i. 43 Virtue..untinctured with..austerity.
2. In literal use; spec. in Her.
1880Warren Book-plates ii. 10 The arms are..at that period untinctured. |