Unbribed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not bribed; not corrupted by bribery.

1607.  Tourneur, Rev. Trag. I. ii. The justice Of that unbribed euerlasting law.

1646.  G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. (Grosart), I. 56. She commands Who ballanceth the world with unbrib’d hands.

1668.  Dryden, Dram. Poesy, Ess. (ed. Ker), I. 44. That praise or censure is certainly the most sincere, which unbribed posterity shall give us.

1733.  Pope, Ess. Man, III. 158. Unbrib’d, unbloody, stood the blameless priest.

1796.  Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, V. 230. [He was] unbribed by the high praise of his son.

1802–12.  Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), II. 424. Two hundred unbribed witnesses agree in deposing that … he was seen by them at Prague.

1845.  Eliza Cook, Old Man’s Marvel, xix. It [the heart] stands unbribed by an Eastern mine—For a ducat of dross ’tis bought and sold.

  fig.  1608.  Beaum. & Fl., Four Pl. in One, Wks. 1912, X. 340. Have I not here enough to thank Heaven for?… The water that I touch, unbrib’d with odours To make me sweet to others.

  2.  Not obtained or brought about by bribery.

1667.  R. Wild, Poems (1870), 75. Unbribed loyalty! his highest reach Was to be Master Calamy, and preach.

1735.  Thomson, Liberty, I. 79. The commonweal inspiring every tongue With fervent eloquence, unbrib’d, and bold.

1781.  Cowper, Hope, 580. Paul’s love of Christ, and steadiness unbrib’d.

1802–12.  Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), V. 93. Perjury, if unbribed, will be without a motive.