ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. obs. Da. uborget.] Not borrowed or taken on loan; esp. fig., not adopted from another, native, inherent, original. (Common from c. 1700.)
1638. G. Daniel, Eclog., i. 256. Oh doe not thinke but She may be as faire In nature’s bounties, with vnborrwed haire.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Past., IV. 52. The luxurious father of the fold, With native purple and unborrowed gold, Beneath his pompous fleece shall proudly sweat.
1704. Moderat. Displ., ix. Bathillo, in his own unborrow’d Strains, Young Sacharissa’s Angel Form profanes.
1742. Richardson, Pamela, III. 325. For your Arguments are always new and unborrow’d.
1793. W. Roberts, Looker-on, No. 43 (1794), II. 144. His taste was unborrowed, as well as the principles on which he supported it.
1828. Ld. Grenville, Sinking Fund, 55. Every portion of unborrowed wealth which this fund has ever received.
1871. Fraser, Life Berkeley, ix. 351. His unborrowed, evidently self-elaborated thought.
