untincturedadj.
1. figurative. Untinged, uncoloured, unaffected. Const. by or with.
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1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 2 Simple gratitude untinctured with love.
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 329 They are not untinctured with vanity.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 397 [Zebras] caught sufficiently young, so as to be untinctured by their original state of wildness.
1801 Lusignan I. 113 A degree of awe..not untinctured with [fear].
1866 Q. Rev. Apr. 327 Oracles of the common law, but untinctured by scholarship.
1874 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible i. 43 Virtue..untinctured with..austerity.
2. In literal use; spec. in Heraldry.
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untinctured1880
1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates ii. 10 The arms are..at that period untinctured.
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