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unaˈdorned, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
1634Milton Comus 23 All the Sea-girt Iles That like to rich and various gemms inlay The unadorned bosom of the Deep. 1667― P.L. iv. 305 Shee as a vail down to the slender waste Her unadorned golden tresses wore. 1730Thomson Autumn 213 For loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorn'd adorn'd the most. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand., Portrait 231 She, adorning fashion, unadorned by dress. 1813Byron Br. Abydos ii. ix, That dagger..No longer glitter'd at his waist, Where pistols unadorn'd were braced. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia I. 80 It is a very simple and unadorned construction. 1871Darwin Desc. Man ii. xiii. (1890) 391 Eight or nine specimens..retained their unadorned winter plumage..throughout the year.
b. In transf. or fig. applications.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §142 A man..unadorned with parts of vigour and quickness. 1692Atterbury Serm., Ps. l. 14 (1726) I. 31 Majestick Plainness and Simplicity of Thought..Unadorn'd by Words, Unenliven'd by Figures. 1744Akenside Pleas. Imag. i. 550 Where Virtue..doth forsake The unadorned condition of her birth. 1796F. Burney Camilla vii. viii, The artlessness of unadorned truth. 1837Hallam Hist. Lit. i. iv. §22 The speeches in this tragedy are sometimes too long, the style unadorned.
Hence unaˈdornedly adv., unaˈdornedness.
1727Bailey (vol. II), Plainness,..Unadornedness. 1820Monthly Rev. XCI. 278 The merit of having recorded faithfully, and unadornedly, the observations made by him. 1847H. Miller First Impr. Eng. vii. (1857) 105 It was placed there, in its naked unadornedness. |