undisguisedadj.
/ˌʌndᵻsˈɡʌɪzd/, /ˌʌndᵻzˈɡʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˌəndɪsˈɡaɪzd/, /ˌəndᵻˈskaɪzd/ (un- prefix1 2.)
a. Of things.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > openness or unconcealedness > [adjective]
openlyeOE
underna900
openeOE
utterly12..
unhida1300
perta1325
apert1330
nakeda1382
public1394
patenta1398
foreign?c1400
overtc1400
unrecovered1433
publicalc1450
open-visageda1513
bare1526
uncloaked1539
subject1556
uncovered1577
unmasked1590
facely1593
undisguised1598
female1602
unveiled1606
unshrouded1610
barefaceda1616
disclouded1615
unhiddena1616
broad-faced1643
with full miena1657
undissembled1671
frank1752
bald-faced1761
unconfidential1772
ostensible1782
unglossed1802
undisguising1813
unvisored1827
unconcealed1839
disprivacied1848
disguiseless1850
bald1854
unobscured1879
visible1885
open door1898
above ground1976
1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 362/1 The prince..in plaine English vndisguised Them shewed hole his iourney.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. lxxvii. 100 Men who live in sincerity.., with an undisguised and unartificial goodness.
1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim vii The naked and undisguised practice of real Godliness.
1694 J. Collier Misc. v. 68 By parity of reason we may court undisguised Ruin.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 18 The very truth I undisguis'd declare.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham III. iii. 34 A friendly dinner, a family meal, are things from which I fly with undisguised aversion.
1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle i. 19 With ingenuous and undisguised wonder.
b. Of persons.
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [adjective] > disclosed or revealed
disclosea1393
overtc1400
discovered1537
outgrown1549
disclosed1579
uncased1598
unfolded1602
unclasped1609
unbreasted1610
undisguised1671
revealed1827
disburied1835
exhumed1840
unbared1879
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 357 Whom thus answer'd th' Arch Fiend now undisguis'd . View more context for this quotation
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 80 He did not walk about in Person, undisguis'd and open,..and acting like himself.
1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. xii. 383 The declared and undisguised pursuer of her favour.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. viii. 104 Each..undisguised, was what his seeming showed.
Derivatives
undisˈguisedness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [noun] > frankness, straightforwardness
plainness1465
plain dealinga1529
freeness1548
roundness1557
ingenuity1614
apertness1618
downrightness1628
unconspiringness1661
frankness1668
even downa1679
undisguise1804
forthcomingness1808
undisguisedness1814
overtness1865
forthrightness1873
1814 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley (1858) II. 494 It proves..the sincerity, undisguisedness, of your passion.
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