unvexedadj.
(un- prefix1 2.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > freedom from trouble, care, or sorrow > [adjective]
sorrowlessOE
carelessa1000
restful1340
clearc1374
unsada1450
undiseased?c1450
unoffendedc1450
undistroubled1466
frank1477
unvexed1485
quiet1535
secure1545
griefless1552
trouble-void1559
woeless1568
undistressed1582
tearless1603
cocksure1613
undejected1613
undisquieted1627
uncareful1635
serene1640
indisconsolatea1645
trouble-free1648
catastematic1656
thoughtless1659
incruciated1661
easy1692
undepressed1697
unsufferinga1732
ungloomed1737
solute1742
unanxious1742
undarkened1742
unsighinga1743
comfortable1770
unharassed1796
unworried1818
gloomless1820
ungroaning1821
unpestered1824
ungrieving1837
troubleless1838
unsaddened?c1840
untrespassed1854
unannoyed1865
unfretted1870
fretless1878
worriless1889
stress-free1898
unstressed1927
1485 Acta Dom. Conc. (1839) *94/1 To be..Joisit be him vnvext be þaim bot as law will.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxiii. 95 The mannis persone restis..jn the nycht, and the membris and the wit ar bathe vnvexit.
1508 Reg. Privy Seal Scotl. I. 234/2 To..defend [them]..unvexit and undistroublit.
1611 J. Donne Anat. World sig. B4 In whom all white, and redde, and blue (Beauties ingredients) voluntary grew, As in an vnuext Paradise.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 253 With a blessed and vn-vext retyre,..We will beare home that lustie blood againe. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 91 Unvex'd with Quarrels, undisturb'd with Noise. View more context for this quotation
1791 G. Huddesford Salmagundi 105 Unvex'd by the cares that ambition and state has.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. viii. ii. 254 Which put forth shoots like a plantation in a fat and unvexed soil.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 29 Unvext She slipt across the summer of the world.
1869 J. R. Lowell Ode to Happiness 71 These in unvexed dependence lie, Each 'neath his strip of household sky.
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