unˈwounded, ppl. a.
[OE. unwundod (un-1 8), = MDu. onghewondet (Du. ongewond). Cf. G. unverwundet.]
Not wounded; unhurt.
| a 1000 Genesis 183 Ne þær æniᵹ com blod of benne, ac him breᵹo engla of lice ateah liodende ban, wer unwundod. c 1200 Ormin 14735 All swa summ Ysaac attbrasst Unnwundedd & unnwemmedd. c 1350 Will. Palerne 1280 Riȝt fewe went a-wey vn-woundet or take. c 1400 Destr. Troy 10696 Aiax..vnwoundit, i-wis, out of wothe paste. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7098 Cuthbert men vnwounded eschapid. 1502 W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. xl. (1893) 229 If thou vse nat on euery hande thy shylde of pacyence, thou shalt nat be longe vnwounded. 1614 T. Tomkis Albumazar i. vii, With these walk as unwounded as Achilles, Dipp'd by his mother Thetis. 1651 Davenant Gondibert ii. iii. xl, Vex'd that the Empire which your wound did gaine, Was by a young unwounded Army fought! 1700 Dryden Ovid's Met. xiii. 434 Hector from the Field unwounded went. 1777 Potter æschylus, Choephoræ 376 [The] envenom'd viper, That poisons with a touch th' unwounded body. 1831 Scott Ct. Rob. xvi, He covered his eyes with the unwounded hand. 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 185 An un⁓wounded cow giraffe. |
| fig. and transf. 1579 E. K. Gloss. to Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Oct. 41 Woundlesse armour, vnwounded in warre, doe rust through long peace. 1622 Fletcher Span. Cur. i. i, We may hear praises when they are deserv'd, Our modesty unwounded. 1624 Massinger Parl. Love v. i, Provided my fair name Had been unwounded. 1735 Pope Ep. Lady 260 She, who can..hear Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear. 1816 Southey Poet's Pilgr. ii. iii. 169 Unwounded here Judæa's balm distill'd Its precious juice. 1818 Milman Samor iv. 406 The beardless Troilus, Unwounded by soft Cresseide's arrowy eyes. |
| absol. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 517. I expect..that the healed will accompany me as undisturbedly as the unwounded along our future progress. |