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unˈblemished, ppl. a.
Forms: (see blemish v.).
[un-1 8.]
1. Free from moral blemish or stain:
a. Of persons. Also absol.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 782 Vnblemyst I am wyth-outen blot. 1626Quarles Feast for Worms 1594 His Spouse is chaste, vnblemisht with a spot. 1646Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode xxiv, The unblemisht Lambe, blessed for ever, Should take the marke of sin, and paine of sence. 1711Pope Temp. Fame 523 Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown! 1784Cowper Task iii. 83 'Twas..an wholesome rigour in the main, And taught th' unblemish'd to preserve with care That purity, whose loss was loss of all. 1800Misc. Tr. in Asiat. Ann. Reg. 58/2 Fines are enacted for abandoning an unblemished girl, and forgiving a blemished damsel. 1870Bryant Iliad vi. I. 194 Priam's sons in law And their unblemished consorts.
b. Of honour, name, character, etc.
1432Paston Lett. I. 35 The said Erle..desired, and ever shal, to kepe his trouthe and worship unblemysshed. a1475Ashby Dicta Philos. 1155 Thus ye shul..come to grete glory and noble fame Thurgh your goode liffe & vnblemyshed name. 1634Milton Comus 215 O welcom pure-ey'd Faith,..And thou unblemish't form of Chastity. 1670Pettus Fodinæ Reg. 45 They must be Men of upright and unblemisht Lives and Conversations. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. ii. iv. I. 139 He should be of an unblemished and virtuous Character. 1779Mirror No. 33, I am now in affluent circumstances, and I have reason to think that I am so with an unblemished character. 1823Scott Quentin D. xviii, For the unblemished faith and unfaded honour of Scotland. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 387 All the authority which belongs to unblemished integrity.
2. Not substantially or materially blemished or impaired.
c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6802 Þe text of wangels fell in þe water... Þe text was foun vnblemyst þare. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. vii. (1885) 125 For be this meane þe kynges estate shall alwey be kept vnblemyshed. a1500in Arnolde's Chron. (1811) 19 So that all the forsayd citezens of London..haue alle the frauncheses of the wareyn and forest vnblemysshyd. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. xi. 62 What foule disgrace is this,..To blot your beautie that vnblemisht is? 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 618 The religious houses only being spared, and left vnblemished. 1625Quarles Sion's Sonn. xvii. 3 His eyes are..Vnblemisht, vndistayned with a spot. 1883Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 2365 The tenth one [of cattle, etc.] being set apart, no matter whether it were bad or good, blemished or unblemished.
Hence unˈblemishedness.
1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 239 The unblemishednesse required in all the Priests, that ministered in the sanctuary. 1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 58 After a due search into their Pedigree, and the unblemishedness of their body. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 148 The Necessity of a moral Cleanness and Unblemishedness. |