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unˈsoftened, ppl. a. (un-1 8.)
1645Hammond Death-bed Repent. 29 When the hard heart is unsoftned, unhumbled. 1715Atterbury Serm. (1734) III. 121 Impatient of Delay, and unsoftned by all these Applications. 1789T. Twining Aristotle's Treat. Poetry 352 The unsoftened and unflattered character of Achilles. 1802Noble Wanderers II. 143 The multitude of his sins were unsoftened by a single charity. 1855[J. R. Leifchild] Cornwall 76 The same primitive rock..is still durable and unsoftened. 1857N. Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1870) II. 291 Scenery..with very hard outlines, which are unsoftened..by any foliage. |