unˈchastened, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
| 1641 Milton Ch. Govt. ii. Concl. 62 A sort of formal outside men..whose unchast'nd and unwrought minds [were] never yet..subdu'd under the true lore of religion. 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 136 He..has left his own household unchastened and unguided. 1819 Keats Otho i. ii, I blush to think of my unchasten'd tongue. 1846 Ruskin Mod. Paint. II. iii. x. §6 In language coarse, in thought undisciplined, in all unchastened. 1875 Maine Hist. Inst. i. 6 A school [of thought] almost infamous for the unchastened license of its speculations on history and philology. |