ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not having a color or colors.
1538. Elyot, Abaphus, vndied or vncoloured.
1541. R. Copland, Galyen’s Terap., 2 C iij. The partye of the vlcere that is stony and harde and vncoloured ought to be cut.
1667. Milton, P. L., V. 189. Whether to deck with Clouds the uncolourd skie, Or wet the thirstie Earth with falling showers.
a. 1684. Leighton, Com. 1 Pet. (1693), 184. When you look … through pure uncolour’d glass, you receive the clear light.
1784. Cowper, Task, VI. 178. All this uniform, uncolour’d scene, Shall … flush into variety again.
1843. Prichard, Nat. Hist. Man., 89. When the light … shone through the transparent texture uncoloured.
1876. O. C. Stone, in Jrnl. R. Geog. Soc., XLVI. 42. The substitution of a yellow-stained belt for a plain uncoloured one.
2. fig. a. Not invested with any specious or deceptive appearance or quality; open, undisguised; not influenced or affected by something.
1585. Abp. Sandys, Serm., 21. Without trecherie and deceit,… in naked simplicitie, in trueth vncoloured.
1775. Burke, Corr. (1844), II. 65. The insolent and uncoloured act of injustice which has been done to my brother.
1827. Carlyle, Misc. (1840), I. 30. Such, seen through no uncoloured medium,… are some features of … Richter and his works.
1841. H. T. Tuckerman, Rambles & Reveries, 276. Sending forth his [Wordsworth’s] effusions, as uncolored by the poetic taste of the time, as statues from an isolated quarry.
1868. Farrar, Seekers, I. ii. (1875), 32. They have been even entirely uncoloured by his teaching.
b. Plain, simple.
1845[?]. De Quincey, Ess., J. Foster, Wks. (1858), 292. The uncoloured style of his general diction.
Hence Uncoloredly, Uncolouredly adv.; Uncolouredness.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., III. 216. They saw themselues to be openly and uncoloredly scorned of the Pope and his Bulbearers.
1904. T. Noel, Autobiog. & Rem., 15. It would only give my reader another clue to question my statements and doubt my entire efforts at enlightenment, were I to fairly, honestly, correctly and uncoloredly give the same.
1660. H. More, Myst. Godl., I. x. 30, marg. The invisibility and uncolouredness of the Air is called Hades or Hell.
