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  1.  Not blenched or turned aside; undismayed, unflinching.

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1634.  Milton, Comus, 430. Yea there, where very desolation dwels,… She may pass on with unblench’t majesty.

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1839.  Hallam, Hist. Lit. (1855), IV. 101. His eye roams unblenched in the light, before which that of Pascal had been veiled in awe.

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1863.  Is. Williams, Baptistery, II. xxiv. (1874), 9. He who seem’d an unblench’d eye to bear.

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1876.  Bancroft, Hist. U.S., IV. xxiv. 494. Wesley’s mental constitution was not robust enough to gaze on the future with unblenched calm.

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  2.  Unstained, untarnished.

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  Perh. vaguely associated with BLENCH v.2

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1813.  Coleridge, Night-Scene, 66. I swore to her, that were she red with guilt, I would exchange my unblenched state with hers. Ibid. (1815), Zapolya, Prelude, i. 286. Let the Queen Dowager, with unblench’d honours, Resume her state.

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