ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1672. Dryden, Assignation, V. iv. So you shall still be innocent, and I Die blessed, and unindebted for my being.
1759. Ann. Reg., Hist. War, 41/2. Unindebted to family or connections.
1781. Cowper, Table-t., 525. Give me the line, That, like some cottage beauty, strikes the heart, Quite unindebted to the tricks of art.
1846. Sir W. Hamilton, Diss., in Reids Wks., 891. Neither ignorant of, nor unindebted to, their writings.
1882. Saintsbury, Hist. French Lit., III. vii. 380. He was probably not unindebted to Descartes for the force and vigour of his reasonings.
Hence Unindebtedness.
1866. Times, 4 Jan., 8/4. If they shall have paid off their present debt, they will enjoy a confidence far stronger than that from simple unindebtedness.