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unˈtempted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not tempted; unassailed by temptation.
1607Beaum. & Fl. Woman-Hater iv. i, Can you imagine A Maid, whose beauty could not suffer her To live thus long untempted? 1652Bp. Hall Invis. World iii. xii, Those objects of dread, and horror,..not so confined to their hell, as to leave us untempted. 1716Gay Trivia ii. 287 Careful observers,..Untempted,..contemn the jugler's feats, Pass by the Meuse, nor try the thimble's cheats. 1757[see untainted ppl. a. 4 b]. 1809–14Wordsw. Excurs. viii. 259 Those..yet untempted to forsake The simple occupations of their sires. 1865Grosart Mem. H. Palmer 44 The issue of profound meditation,..not untempted of doubt. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 366 An unworn, untempted nature.
b. Not due to or resulting from temptation or enticement.
1744Akenside Ep. Curio 67 Yet must you one untempted vileness own. 1753Fielding Eliz. Canning Wks. 1903 XI. 39 A pitch of wanton and untempted inhumanity, beyond all possibility of belief. 1871Ruskin Fors Clav. vii. 23 There is no physical crime..so without parallel in its untempted guilt, as the making of war machinery.
2. Unattempted, untried. rare—1.
1744Akenside Pleas. Imag. i. 573 Let the breath of thy extended praise Inspire my kindling bosom to the height Of this untempted theme. |
