untinctured
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]untinctured (not comparable)
- (often figurative) Not tinctured; not tainted or coloured (with or by something)
- 1766, T[obias] Smollett, “Letter VII”, in Travels through France and Italy. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC:
- It is no wonder that the heart of a female, unimproved by reason, and untinctured with natural good sense, should flutter at the sight of such a gaudy thing […]
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 2, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
- […] two or three little circumstances occurred ere they parted, which, in her anxious interpretation, denoted a recollection of Jane, not untinctured by tenderness, and a wish of saying more that might lead to the mention of her, had he dared.
- 1918 May 9, Lytton Strachey, “[Florence Nightingale.] Chapter III”, in Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon (Library of English Literature; LEL 11347), London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 152:
- Perhaps out of England such an intimacy could hardly have existed—an intimacy so utterly untinctured not only by passion itself but by the suspicion of it.