ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not morally depraved or corrupted; not lowered in character or tone.
1646–7. J. Hall, Poems, 95. There did he loose his snowy Innocence, His undepraved will.
1660. Stanley, Hist. Philos., XIII. (1687), 909/2. Thus doth every undepraved animal, its own nature judging incorruptly and entirely.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., I. (1703), 152. If we hearken to the undepraved suggestions of our minds.
1782. V. Knox, Ess. (1819), II. lxxi. 67. Who possess all the faculties of perception, in a state undepraved by artificial refinement.
1784. Cowper, Task, I. 124. The palate, undeprav’d By culinary arts.
1826. Q. Rev., XXXIII. 283. Men whose sense of right and wrong is undepraved.
2. Not vitiated textually.
1686. W. Hopkins, trans. Ratramnus, Dissert. ii. (1688), 33. Whether it [a book] be come pure and undepraved to our hands, I shall enquire in the next chapter.
1693. J. Edwards, Author. O. & N. Test., 53. These Masoretick Doctors … have kept it [sc. the Hebrew text] undepraved and uncorrupt.
Hence Undepravedness.
1723. Mather, Vind. Bible, 337. The sense of the place pleads for the undepravedness of the Hebrew in this verse.
