unbloodedadj.
1. = unbloodied adj. 1.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > [adjective] > free from specific kinds of dirt
unbepissedc1540
unbloody1594
ungored1606
motherless1607
unbloodieda1616
dustlessa1618
unpuddleda1618
unlimed1621
unmudded1625
smokeless1631
unpitched1634
undusted1648
cobweblessa1661
slimeless1672
unsmokified1693
unmiry1716
unmildewed1775
unblooded1785
unstercorated1821
moteless1869
scumless1881
smearless1885
sootless1890
unsmoked1890
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Unblooded, not blooded, not stained with blood.]
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 215 The shrew'd Contriver who first..forced the blunt and yet unblooded [1800 unbloodied] steel To a keen edge.
1818 H. H. Milman Samor iv. 78 To Hela's realm, Unblooded, woundless, must the maid descend.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert vii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 211 As a man who dies in peace, and with unblooded hand.
2. Of an animal: ‘Not marked or distinguished with improved blood’.
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1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing J. N. Brown).
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adj.1785