Unmoved

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8, 5 b.]

  1.  Not moved by emotion or excitement; unaffected, undisturbed; collected, calm.

c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xxxvii. (Vincencius), 397. His thocht wes vnmowit ay, Sa ferme wes he in cristis fay.

1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 2. They which in his absence did stand assured and vnmoued.

a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, I. i. Holding his head up full of unmoved majestie.

1647.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. § 44. When he found the Duke unmoved by all the considerations and arguments … he had offered.

1697.  Dryden, Æneis, V. 526. My soul is still the same, Unmoved with fear, and moved with martial fame.

1720.  Swift, Fates Clergym., Wks. 1755, II. II. 26. Only Corusodes was silent and unmoved.

1796.  Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, IV. 326. Edgar could not hear unmoved the dialogue which ensued.

1830.  Tennyson, Poems, 39. If so be if from doubt at length, Truth may stand forth unmoved of change.

1831.  G. P. R. James, Philip Augustus, III. vii. The chilling unmoved glance of her large dark eye.

1885.  ‘Mrs. Alexander,’ At Bay, v. The unmoved composure of the practised detectives.

  † b.  Unprovoked. Obs.^–1

1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 212. The Mannatee or Cow-fish … is … a gentle fish vnmoued, and some say affects the visage of a man.

  2.  Not moved in position; unstirred; remaining fixed or steady.

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 366/1. On-mevyd, immotus.

1513.  Douglas, Æneid, VII. v. 131. His sycht vnmovyt to the erd dyd he prent.

1628.  May, Virg. Georg., II. 51. Therefore no windes … orethrow Those Trees; for many yeares unmov’d they grow.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Past., X. 45. Unmoved, and with dejected eyes, be mourned.

1744.  Berkeley, Siris, § 1. The vessel must stand close covered and unmoved three days.

a. 1795.  Philidor, Studies of Chess (1817), 99. An unmoved Rook.

1841.  G. P. R. James, Brigand, ix. The heavy vapours hung unmoved around the peaks.

1887.  Field, 15 Oct., 603/2. The unmoved ground … is very dry a few inches from the surface.

  3.  (See MOVE v. 5. b.)

1843.  R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., xiv. 153. He told me he passed the night in great torture, and that the bowels were still unmoved.

  Hence Unmovedness.

1628.  Feltham, Resolves, II. xix. 61. They set him almost in the Throne of a Deitie; ascend him to an vnmouednesse.

1687.  Boyle, Martyrd. Theodora, xi. 120. All the unmov’dness of mind, she us’d to be Mistress of.