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unˈwounded, ppl. a.
[OE. unwundod (un-1 8), = MDu. onghewondet (Du. ongewond). Cf. G. unverwundet.]
Not wounded; unhurt.
a1000Genesis 183 Ne þær æniᵹ com blod of benne, ac him breᵹo engla of lice ateah liodende ban, wer unwundod. c1200Ormin 14735 All swa summ Ysaac attbrasst Unnwundedd & unnwemmedd. c1350Will. Palerne 1280 Riȝt fewe went a-wey vn-woundet or take. c1400Destr. Troy 10696 Aiax..vnwoundit, i-wis, out of wothe paste. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7098 Cuthbert men vnwounded eschapid. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. xl. (1893) 229 If thou vse nat on euery hande thy shylde of pacyence, thou shalt nat be longe vnwounded. 1614T. Tomkis Albumazar i. vii, With these walk as unwounded as Achilles, Dipp'd by his mother Thetis. 1651Davenant Gondibert ii. iii. xl, Vex'd that the Empire which your wound did gaine, Was by a young unwounded Army fought! 1700Dryden Ovid's Met. xiii. 434 Hector from the Field unwounded went. 1777Potter æschylus, Choephoræ 376 [The] envenom'd viper, That poisons with a touch th' unwounded body. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. xvi, He covered his eyes with the unwounded hand. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 185 An un⁓wounded cow giraffe.
fig. and transf.1579E. K. Gloss. to Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Oct. 41 Woundlesse armour, vnwounded in warre, doe rust through long peace. 1622Fletcher Span. Cur. i. i, We may hear praises when they are deserv'd, Our modesty unwounded. 1624Massinger Parl. Love v. i, Provided my fair name Had been unwounded. 1735Pope Ep. Lady 260 She, who can..hear Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear. 1816Southey Poet's Pilgr. ii. iii. 169 Unwounded here Judæa's balm distill'd Its precious juice. 1818Milman Samor iv. 406 The beardless Troilus, Unwounded by soft Cresseide's arrowy eyes.
absol.1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 517. I expect..that the healed will accompany me as undisturbedly as the unwounded along our future progress. |