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unˈvarnished, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. fig. Of statements, etc.: Not embellished or rendered specious; plain, direct.
1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 90, I will a round vn-varnish'd Tale deliuer, Of my whole course of Loue. 1780Burke Sp. at Bristol Wks. III. 367 This is a true, unvarnished, undisguised state of the affair. 1790Wolcot (P. Pindar) Adv. Future Laureat ii. i, Were I monarch of this mighty isle! By verse unvarnish'd should my merits smile. 1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. II. 238 State to this company, without exaggeration, and without palliation, your own unvarnished story! 1883M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed xxxi, Valerian..had set out with the intention of adhering to the unvarnished truth, but finally ended in romancing.
b. Of persons, etc.: Unsophisticated, unpolished; plain and simple.
1827Pollok Course T. viii. 107 A congregation..Of unappendaged and unvarnished men; Of plain, unceremonious human beings. 1831[Mary Berry] Soc. Life Eng. & France 192 Strong appeals to all the unvarnished feelings of human nature. 1864Mrs. H. Wood Verner's Pride xli, Lady Verner liked Lord Garle..ten times better than she liked unvarnished Jan.
2. Not covered with, or as with, varnish.
1758Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 372 Into an unvarnished earthen dish put the quantity of Tin you intend to calcine. 1784Cowper Task vi. 174 The deep dark green of whose unvarnish'd leaf, illumines more The bright profusion of her scatter'd stars. 1875T. Seaton Fret-Cutting 33 The mortification of ultimately finding some place left unvarnished or unfinished.
Hence unˈvarnishedly adv.
1824Hogg Tales & Sk. V. 68, I had kept by the naked truth too unvarnishedly. |