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1672.  Dryden, Assignation, V. iv. So you shall still be innocent, and I Die blessed, and unindebted for my being.

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1759.  Ann. Reg., Hist. War, 41/2. Unindebted to family or connections.

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1781.  Cowper, Table-t., 525. Give me the line, That, like some cottage beauty, strikes the heart, Quite unindebted to the tricks of art.

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1846.  Sir W. Hamilton, Diss., in Reid’s Wks., 891. Neither ignorant of, nor unindebted to, their writings.

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1882.  Saintsbury, Hist. French Lit., III. vii. 380. He was … probably not unindebted to Descartes for the force and vigour of his reasonings.

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  Hence Unindebtedness.

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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.

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