unconˈtaminated, ppl. a.
(un-1 8 and 5 b.)
| 1611 Cotgr., Incontaminé, vncontaminated, vnpolluted. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. II. xvi. 375 Nature has providently stopped the fruitfulness of these ill-formed productions, in order to preserve the form of every animal uncontaminated. 1832 Miss Mitford Village Ser. v. 7 Our village, though in the centre of the insurgents, continued uncontaminated. 1879 Froude Cæsar ii. 19 Whose minds were still uncontaminated, in whom the ancient habits of life still survived. |