unˈsainted, ppl. a.2
[un-1 8.]
Unsanctified; not canonized.
| a 1642 Suckling Acc. Relig. Ep., Wks. (1648) 100 The Fathers of the Church..had slept now un-Sainted in their Graves,..benighted with Oblivion. 1647 Wharton Bellum Hybern. 1 As Iohn Booker prognosticated in his un-sainted state-lying-Kalender. 1768 [W. Donaldson] Life Sir B. Sapskull I. vii. 90 St. Austin,..Chrysostom, and many other sainted and unsainted fathers. 1862 E. Arnold Hymn of Priestess of Diana iii, O ear, that hears no word..unfit! O breast, which thought unsainted never felt! 1895 Outing April 6/1 Shame! shame! upon those unsainted ones! |