undefacedadj.
1. Not defaced or disfigured; not destroyed.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > free from harm or damage
unwoundedOE
scathelessc1175
skerea1225
unhurta1225
harmlessc1290
soundc1290
unshent1303
wella1325
quartc1330
untouchedc1400
inviolatea1420
unscathed1425
dangerlessc1440
unshendc1440
undefiledc1460
unhurted1483
hailscarta1522
undefaced1537
unpairedc1540
uncloyeda1560
undamnified1576
undemnified1576
uninjured1578
unfoiled1579
salamander-like1593
unvulnered1613
undamaged1648
invulneratea1680
sincere1700
1537 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 164 The churche and house remenythe as yet undefacede.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8730 He fraynet..How the korse might be keppit..Fresshe, vndefacede, & in fyne hew.
1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 115 John hyxon haythe ij candelstickes & sensors vndefased.
1582 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 100 The chamber, as yt now standeth, vndefaced.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments To Rdr. Such memorials..as were remaining yet vndefaced.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads 374 Yet is his body uncorrupt,..And..doth whole remain And undefac'd, the bloud all washt away.
1772 S. Denne & W. Shrubsole Hist. Rochester 63 The monuments of the dead..escaped undefaced.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xxiii. 604 The primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man.
1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators III. 165 Never again would she lie in the moonlight, beautiful and gracious and undefaced.
2. Not obliterated or blotted out; uneffaced.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [adjective] > not obliterated
undefaced1565
unobliterated1644
unerased1770
uneffaced1792
1565 MS. Cott. Cal. B. 10. f. 270 Which charters remain still undefaced.
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. iii. §3. 19 There is a sense of God still vndefac't.
1633 T. Nashe Quaternio (1636) 224 Both he and shee are branded with infamie, and the stigmaticall characters remaine as yet vndefaced in them.
1709 Brit. Apollo 13–18 May Undefac'd Impressions of our Maker's Image.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 148 The softer substances, when they receive an impression, retain it undefaced.
1873 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 333 The undefaced cross and bull on the door-post.
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