ppl. a. (UN-1 8.) a. Of things.

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a. 1500.  Chaucer’s Dreme, 1450. The prince,… in plaine English undisguised, Hem shewed hole his journeye.

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1656.  [see UNARTIFICIAL a. 2].

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1663.  Bp. Patrick, Parab. Pilgr., vii. The naked and undisguised practice of real Godliness.

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1697.  Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., I. (1709), 165. By parity of Reason, we may court undisguised Ruin.

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1726.  Pope, Odyss., XVII. 18. The very truth I undisguised declare.

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1828.  Lytton, Pelham, III. iii. A friendly dinner, a family meal, are things from which I fly with undisguised aversion.

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1873.  Holland, A. Bonnic., i. 19. With ingenuous and undisguised wonder.

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  b.  Of persons.

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1671.  Milton, P. R., I. 357. Whom thus answer’d th’ Arch Fiend now undisguis’d.

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1727.  De Foe, Syst. Magic, I. iii. (1840), 79. He did not walk about in person, undisguised and open,… and acting like himself.

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1796.  Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, III. 383. The declared and undisguised pursuer of her favour.

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1827.  Pollok, Course T., VIII. 137. Each,… undisguised, was what his seeming showed.

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  Hence Undisguisedness.

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1814.  Shelley, in Hogg, Life (1858), II. 494. It proves … the sincerity, undisguisedness, of your passion.

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