untemptedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈtɛm(p)tᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈtɛm(p)təd/ 1.
a. Not tempted; unassailed by temptation.
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1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iv. i. sig. G2 Can you imagine A maide, whose beauty could not suffer her To liue thus long vntempted.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) iii. xii. 216 Those objects of dread, and horrour,..not so confined to their hell, as to leave us untempted.
1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 31 Careful Observers,..Untempted,..contemn the Jugler's Feats, Pass by the Meuse, nor try the Thimble's Cheats.
1757 S. Foote Author ii. 43 If George remains as untainted by Affluence, as he has been untempted by Distress.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion viii. 371 Those..yet untempted to forsake The simple occupations of their Sires. View more context for this quotation
1865 A. B. Grosart Mem. H. Palmer 44 The issue of profound meditation,..not untempted of doubt.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 366 An unworn, untempted nature.
b. Not due to or resulting from temptation or enticement.
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the mind > will > free will > [adjective] > not proceeding from temptation
untempted1744
1744 M. Akenside Epist. to Curio 67 Yet must you one untempted vileness own.
1753 H. Fielding E. Canning in Wks. (1903) XI. 39 A pitch of wanton and untempted inhumanity, beyond all possibility of belief.
1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. vii. 23 There is no physical crime..so without parallel in its untempted guilt, as the making of war machinery.
2. Unattempted, untried. rare.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > [adjective] > attempted > not
unassayedc1374
unattempted1548
unsought1582
undared1587
unventured1606
unessayed1642
unendeavoured1656
untempted1744
1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 573 Let the breath of thy extended praise Inspire my kindling bosom to the height Of this untempted theme.
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