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Webster 1828 Edition


Untinctured

UNTINC'TURED

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Adj.
Not tinctured; not tinged.

Definition 2024


untinctured

untinctured

English

Adjective

untinctured (not comparable)

  1. Not tinctured.
    • 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, Letter VII,
      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 []
    • 1918, Lytton Strachey, "Florence Nightingale" in Eminent Victorians, New York: Garden City Publishing, p. 172,
      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.