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Webster 1828 Edition


Untempted

UNTEMPT'ED

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Adj.
Not tempted; not tried by enticements or persuasions; not invited by any thing alluring.

Definition 2024


untempted

untempted

English

Adjective

untempted (comparative more untempted, superlative most untempted)

  1. Not tempted.
    • 2008 February 17, David Rieff, “Miracle Workers?”, in New York Times:
      But the fact that someone so untempted by mystical inclinations could in an important sense be sustained by what was in part a mystical relationship is emblematic of the extraordinary demands that, in extremis, patients cannot help making — demands that are as impossible for doctors to fulfill as they are impossible for patients to forgo.