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unˈfretted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not eaten or worn away; unimpaired.
1577Stanyhurst Hist. Irel. 91/1 in Holinshed I, At night againe he founde the Paper vnfretted, and musing thereof he beganne to poare on the writing. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. iii. 84 Shewing that the shell was..eaten away,..but the thin skin..continu'd altogether unfretted. 1894Mrs. A. Webster Mother & Dau. (1895) 30 She sees this [feature] fair, and that unfretted still.
2. Not vexed or worried.
1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. III. 47 When his mind was sufficiently unfretted. 1893Atlantic Monthly Feb. 283 He is..unfretted by the cares of housekeeping. |