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unˈcoloured, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not having a colour or colours.
1538Elyot, Abaphus, vndied or vncoloured. 1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 C iij, The partye of the vlcere that is stony and harde and vncoloured ought to be cut. 1667Milton P.L. v. 189 Whether to deck with Clouds the uncolourd skie, Or wet the thirstie Earth with falling showers. a1684Leighton Com. 1 Pet. (1693) 184 When you look..through pure uncolour'd glass, you receive the clear light. 1784Cowper Task vi. 178 All this uniform, uncolour'd scene, Shall..flush into variety again. 1843Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 89 When the light..shone through the transparent texture uncoloured. 1876O. C. Stone in Jrnl. R. Geog. Soc. XLVI. 42 The substitution of a yellow-stained belt for a plain uncoloured one.
2. fig.
a. Not invested with any specious or deceptive appearance or quality; open, undisguised; not influenced or affected by something.
1585Abp. Sandys Serm. 21 Without trecherie and deceit,..in naked simplicitie, in trueth vncoloured. 1775Burke Corr. (1844) II. 65 The insolent and uncoloured act of injustice which has been done to my brother. 1827Carlyle Misc. (1840) I. 30 Such, seen through no uncoloured medium,..are some features of..Richter and his works. 1868Farrar Seekers i. ii. (1875) 32 They have been even entirely uncoloured by his teaching.
b. Plain, simple.
1845De Quincey Ess., J. Foster Wks. (1858) 292 The uncoloured style of his general diction.
Hence unˈcolouredly adv.; unˈcolouredness.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 216 They saw them⁓selues to be openly and uncoloredly scorned of the Pope and his Bulbearers. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. i. x. 30 marg., The invisibility and uncolouredness of the Air is called Hades or Hell. |