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unˈtroubled, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not subjected to trouble or disquiet.
1484Acta Auditorum (1839) *146/2 Þe said venerable fader..salbe vntrublit for þat some. 1531Reg. Privy Seal Scot. II. 134/2 The saidis personis..to be..unmolestit, and untrublit, for quhatsumever actioun or cryme. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 33 Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best. Ibid. ii. vii. 15 With how small allowaunce Vntroubled Nature doth her selfe suffise. a1625Fletcher Love's Pilgrimage iv. ii, Make your spirit an untroubled way To pass to what it ought. 1648Boyle Seraphick Love (1659) 14 A sight, whose glory made them look on fading Beauties, with..untroubled eyes. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 401 Our Saviour meek and with untroubl'd mind..betook him to his rest. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes ii. x. 17 He who enjoys th' untroubled Breast, Of Virtue's awful Lore possest. 1816Wilson Misc. Poems 268 Thou with that untroubled voice. 1846A. Marsh Father Darcy II. ii. 62 The priest preserved all the usual untroubled gravity and dignity of his demeanour. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 246 Untroubled by care or consuming anxiety.
2. Not rendered turbid. Also fig.
c1614Sir W. Mure Dido & æneas ii. 776 Whose vertew's streame vntrubled still runnes pure. 1662Charleton Myst. Vintners (1675) 191 The equal distribution of the Spirits of the liquor, which always rendreth bodies clear and untroubled. 1810Southey Kehama x. iv, The stream..there delights to lie, Untroubled and at rest Beneath the untainted sky. 182.Mrs. Hemans Evening Prayer iv, Fresh within your breasts th' untroubled springs Of hope make melody.
Hence unˈtroubledness.
a1660Hammond Wks. (1683) IV. 479 He hath..robb'd..the Sceptick of his indifference and untroubledness. |