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1. Not depressed in spirit; not dejected.
1697. D. F., Char. Dr. S. Annesley, 6. When Griefs come threatning on, or Comfort flows, He was undepress’d by these, unrais’d by those.
1782. D. E. Baker, Biog. Dram., I. 222. He maintained his wit and good humour undepressed by misfortunes.
1813. Byron, Corsair, II. viii. ’Tis he indeed—disarm’d but undeprest.
1880. McCarthy, Own Times, III. 225. Undepressed by early poverty, unspoiled by later and almost unequalled success.
2. Not pressed down or bent; not hollowed or sunken.
1807. Wordsw., White Doe, III. 146. A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise.
1819. Scott, Ivanhoe, xxxv. His gait, undepressed by age and toil, was erect.
1879. St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 314. The depressed bone was much driven in, and the margins of the surrounding undepressed portions formed … irregular edges.
