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unˈspotted, ppl. a.
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1. Not marked with spots; free from any spot or stain.
1382Wyclif 1 Pet. i. 19 Bi the precious blood of the lomb vndefoulid and vnspottid. 1446Lydg. Nightingale Poems i. 185 The lombe vnspotted, the grounde of Innocence. 1567Stowe in Three 15th C. Chron. (Camden) 143 About that tyme [1567] were many congregations of the Anabaptysts in London, who cawlyd themselvs Puritans or Unspottyd Lambs of the Lord. 1626Bosworth Arcadius & Sepha ii. 219 The tables did unspotted carpets hold Of Tyrian dyes. 1643(title), The Parliaments Unspotted-Bitch: in answer to Prince Roberts Dog. 1709Addison Tatler No. 97 ⁋2 Her beauty was natural and easy, her Person clean and unspotted. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes ii. v. 24 Like the Moon's unspotted Light, O'er the Waves. 1804Shaw Gen. Zool. V. 73 Unspotted Salmon, Salmo Immaculatus... Salmon with unspotted body. 1835J. Duncan Beetles (Nat. Libr.) 220 The head, thorax, and scutellum are velvet black, and unspotted. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 353 Leaves lanceolate acute unspotted.
2. Not morally stained; unblemished, pure:
a. Of persons, the mind, etc.
c1400Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 48 She..myghtly troid them vndir foit, vnspottid euermore abidyng. c1450Myrr. our Ladye 140 Sonne of the clene and vnspotted vyrgyn. 1526Tindale Jas. i. 27 To kepe hym silfe vnspotted from the worlde. 1576Gascoigne Kenelw. Castle Wks. 1910 II. 108 The stately tower of your unspotted myndes. 1629Prynne Anti-Armin. 84 Being thus rescued from the power of sinne, may they keepe themselues vnspotted from it. 1709Addison Tatler No. 75 ⁋4 My Sister Jenny..is as unspotted a Spinster as any in Great Britain. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes i. xxiv. 9 Modesty, unspotted Maid, And Truth in artless Guise array'd. 1812Crabbe Tales vi. 346 A heart unspotted, and a life unblamed. 1863Conington Horace, Odes i. x. 17 Thou lay'st unspotted souls to rest.
b. Of character, qualities, etc.
1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 280/2 Alwey kepyng oure trouthe to his said Highnesse unspotted and unbrused. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 87 The vnspotted proprietie of the Latin tong,..whan it was..at the hiest pitch of all perfitenesse. 1579Spenser Two Commend. Lett. i. ad fin., The..inuiolable Memorie of our vnspotted friendshippe. 1638M. Griffith in Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 160 Christendome cannot shew in one person..a more Angelical Life, unspotted of y⊇ Worlde & the Flesh. 1665Bunyan Holy Citie 73 The twelve Apostles, in their own pure, primitive, and unspotted Doctrine. 1712Steele Spect. No. 276 ⁋2, I am a Woman of an unspotted Reputation. 1772Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) II. 132 A being of unspotted purity. 1841Browning Pippa Passes ii. 136 Never to overtake the rest of me, All that, unspotted, reaches up to you.
Hence unˈspottedly adv.; unˈspottedness.
1598Florio, Puramente, purely, cleanlie, *vnspottedlie. 1602F. Herring Anat. 6 He may religiously, vnspottedly, and charily, preserue the precious health and life of man.
1598Florio, Purità, puritie, clenlines, neatenes, *vnspottednes. 1624Donne Devotions, etc. (ed. 2) 303 Doeth the Son dwell bodily in this flesh, that thou shouldst looke for an unspottedness here? 1682N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. (ed. 4) iv. 156 The unspottedness of our Virgin-life. 1706tr. Liger's Compl. Florist 273 A violation of the candor and unspottedness of her Manners. 1828T. Brown Serm. 86 Valens spared Paulinus out of respect to the unspottedness of his life. |