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unˈruffled, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. a. Not affected by any violent feeling; not agitated or disturbed; calm, unmoved.
1659W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida Ded., I have, with an unruffled confidence, given these papers a capacity of being publicly viewed. 1712Addison Spect. No. 381 ⁋4 His Temper is even and unruffled. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. xcv, ‘Why shouldn't I lend a hand?’..(answered the unruffled Pipes). 1754Connoisseur No. 4 ⁋9 Whose conversation flows with one even tenor, undisturb'd by sentiment, and unruffled by passion. 1829Lytton Devereux ii. ii, The most unruffled composure. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §3. 369 Her mind was unruffled by the spiritual problems which were vexing the minds around her.
b. Not excited by drinking.
1709Steele Tatler No. 27 ⁋2 When he is himself, and unruffled with Intemperance. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. vii. 363 Perceiving that after they had dispatched four or five bottles.., the Mandarine still continued unruffled.
2. Not physically ruffled or made rough:
a. Of water, etc. Also in fig. context.
1713Addison Cato i. iv, Calm and unruffled as a summer-sea. 1757W. Wilkie Epigon. v. 135 A lake..Whose surface smooth, unruffled by the breeze, The hills inverted shows. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. ii. 365 Days unruffled by the gale Of public news or private. 1824L. M. Hawkins Annaline II. 229 Crags mantled in unruffled snow. 1883Tyndall in Knowledge 3 Aug. 73/2 Between the ferry and this bridge, the river Niagara flows unruffled.
b. Of feathers, leaves, the forehead, etc.
1816Wilson City of Plague ii. iv. 106 Like an angel With hair unruffled in its radiance. 1821Scott Kenilw. v, Now for..an open and unruffled brow! 1854Poultry Chron. I. 328/2 A pen of birds..unruffled in their plumage. a1878Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) I. 320 Here the Byzantinesque foliage is nearly all of the plain unruffled form.
3. Not furnished with ruffles.
c1825Ld. Cockburn Mem. i. (1856) 13 A shirt fastened at the neck by a black ribbon, and except on dress days unruffled.
Hence unˈruffledness.
1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. (1881) II. 177 His propriety, his cleanliness and unruffledness. 1880Ruskin Hortus Inclusus (1887) 77 The perfect cleanliness and unruffledness of white cap [in Chartres] is always a marvel. |
