ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
fig. 1590. Shaks., Mids. N., I. i. 35. Messengers Of strong preuailment in vnhardned youth.
1608. H. Clapham, Errour Right Hand, A 4. If thine heart be vn-hardned, it will easily ioyne with mee.
1619. [see UNHATCHED2].
1747. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), II. 26. After you have heard what your friends shall further urge in his behalf, unhardened by clandestine correspondencies.
1792. Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, V. 390. The few unhardened in crimes.
1821. Southey, in Life A. Bell (1844), III. 630. Preserving his heart the while unstained and unhardened.
1846. Landor, Imag. Conv., Wks. I. 249/2. The studious, the enthusiastic, the unhardened in politics.
lit. 1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 342/1. An intermediate layer of unhardened epiderm.
1884. F. J. Britten, Watch & Clockm., 6. Unhardened springs do not accelerate.
