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unaˈllayed, ppl. a. [un-1 8.] Not allayed or mixed; unmixed, unqualified.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 165 b, He drynketh wyne vnalayed. 1648Boyle Seraph. Love i. (1700) 2 Unallay'd satisfactions are joys too Heavenly to fall to many men's shares on Earth. 1682Norris Hierocles 90 Yet by the conjunction of good, he..at last enjoys pure and unallai'd pleasure with his vertue. 1796C. Smith Marchmont I. 46 Althea received this news with unallayed transport. 1817Coleridge Biogr. Lit. xx. II. 114, I can bring to my recollection three persons..who had read the poems..with more and more unallayed pleasure. 1887Bowen æneid v. 608 Deep her mighty designs, and her ancient wrath unallayed. b. Const. with or by.
a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. viii. (1677) 375 By this means their enjoyments are sincere, unallayed with fears or suspitions. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. civ, The most elevated transports of joy, unallayed with the least mixture of grief. 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 379 Where perils unallay'd by hope appear. 1791A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 199 A source of lasting happiness..unallayed by private or public calamity. |