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unˈtrodden, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
Not trodden or stepped on; untraversed. Also in fig. context.
a1300E.E. Psalter xvii. 31 Mi God un-filed [L. inpolluta; E., H. un-troden] es his wai.
1535Coverdale Ps. cvi[i]. 4 They wente astraye..in an vntroden waye. 1593Sidney's Arcadia iv. (1922) II. 119 Vagabonding in those untroden places. 1606Marston Parasitaster iv. G 4, Vntrodden snow is not so spotless. 1656Cowley Davideis i. 28 Guid my bold steps..In these untrodden paths to Sacred Fame. 1735Berkeley Querist §418 So many roads untrodden, fields untilled, houses desolate. 1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. lxxxvii, Those untrodden forests..which formerly covered the face of the country. 1826Mrs. Hemans Forest Sanctuary i. xiii, The red grapes untrodden strew'd the ground. 1849Grote Greece ii. xxxviii. V. 57 A wild, woody, and untrodden country.
Hence unˈtroddenness.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies xxiii. §1. 203 The ruggednesse, and vntrodenesse of the pathes we haue walked in. 1681R. Fleming Fulfilling Script. ii. Pref. (1726) 249 The untroddenness of this path, the weight..of the truths, with some study..to believe what I wrote. |