ppl. a. [UN-1 8 b. Cf. G. ungefallen, ON. úfallinn (Norw. dial. ufallen).]
1. Not morally fallen.
1653. H. More, Conject. Cabbal., ii. 41. The natures … of the fallen and unfallen Angels, or good and bad Genii.
1679. J. C[heney], Vind. Oaths & Swearing, 7. In Paradise it self,… while man was innocent and unfallen.
1740. Cheyne, Regimen, 129. This … must be the Constitution … of the unfallen angelical State.
1825. Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1848), I. 242. We may say, that in the unfallen rational agent, the will constitutes the law.
1848. Kingsley, Yeast, vi. Who am I to demand her all to myself? Her, the glorious, the saintly, the unfallen!
fig. 1759. Young, Conject. Orig. Composition, 60. What we mean by Blank verse, is verse unfallen, uncurst.
2. Not fallen (in literal sense).
1735. Somerville, Chase, I. 116. Fix’d as a mountain ash, that braves the bolts Of angry Jove; tho’ blasted, yet unfall’n.
1878. Gilder, Poet & Master, 29. It was I who behold the sun’s level light strike through the unfallen … leaves.
Hence Unfallenness.
1876. W. Bathgate, Deep Things of God, v. 79. A peerless perfect man,—albeit entirely Divine in his unfallenness.
