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unˈtouching, ppl. a.
[un-1 5 d, 10.]
1. Not touching (something).
1602W. Basse Three Past. Elegies i. (1893) 46 My flocks..saw their maisters eie Perus'd in things vntutching their estate. 1632Lithgow Trav. vii. 327 Their flight will bee the length of a Cables Rope, vntouching Water. 1846J. C. Mangan Poems (1903) 6 Untouching the earth I then sped forth To Inver-lough.
b. Not having contact.
a1811J. Grahame Poems (1827) 88 Like that untouching cincture which enzones The globe of Saturn.
2. Having no effect upon the feelings; unaffecting.
1745Eliza Heywood Female Spect. No. 10. II. 204 All the Protestations they made..were..unfelt by themselves, and equally untouching to those they were address'd. |