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unˈfallen, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. G. ungefallen, ON. úfallinn (Norw. dial. ufallen).]
1. Not morally fallen.
1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. ii. 41 The natures..of the fallen and unfallen Angels, or good and bad Genii. 1679J. C[heney] Vind. Oaths & Swearing 7 In Paradise it self,..while man was innocent and unfallen. 1740Cheyne Regimen 129 This..must be the Constitution..of the unfallen angelical State. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 242 We may say, that in the unfallen rational agent, the will constitutes the law. 1848Kingsley Yeast vi, Who am I to demand her all to myself? Her, the glorious, the saintly, the unfallen!
fig.1759Young Conject. Orig. Composition 60 What we mean by Blank verse, is verse unfallen, uncurst.
2. Not fallen (in literal sense).
1735Somerville Chase i. 116 Fix'd as a mountain ash, that braves the bolts Of angry Jove; tho' blasted, yet unfall'n. 1878R. W. Gilder Poet & Master 29 It was I who behold the sun's level light strike through the unfallen..leaves.
Hence unˈfallenness.
1876W. Bathgate Deep Things of God v. 79 A peerless perfect man,—albeit entirely Divine in his unfallenness. |