Unalloyed

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

  fig.  a. 1672.  Sterry, Freed. Will (1675), 9. Being it self in its absoluteness,… unalloyed by any differences of mixtures.

1737.  West, Lett., in Gray’s Poems (1775), 27. Four-and-twenty hours of pure unalloy’d health together.

1796.  Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, V. 183. A pity … unalloyed with any blame.

1860.  Motley, Netherl., vi. (1868), I. 358. There is hardly a character in history upon which the imagination can dwell with more unalloyed delight.

1869.  Tozer, Highl. Turkey, I. 131. The purest religious influences, unalloyed by superstition.

  lit.  1760–72.  H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1792), V. 216. A coffin of unalloyed and beaten silver.

1812.  Sir H. Davy, Chem. Philos., 385. Iron … is capable of acquiring magnetism, though in its unalloyed state it retains it only a very short time.