ppl. a.2 [UN-1 8.] Unsanctified; not canonized.

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a. 1642.  Suckling, Acc. Relig., Ep., Wks. (1648), 100. The Fathers of the Church … had slept now un-Sainted in their Graves,… benighted with Oblivion.

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1647.  Wharton, Bellum Hybern., 1. As Iohn Booker prognosticated in his un-sainted state-lying-Kalender.

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1768.  [W. Donaldson], Life Sir B. Sapskull, I. vii. 90. St. Austin,… Chrysostom, and many other sainted and unsainted fathers.

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1862.  E. Arnold, Hymn of Priestess of Diana, iii. O ear, that hears no word … unfit! O breast, which thought unsainted never felt!

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1895.  Outing, April, 6/1. Shame! shame! upon those unsainted ones!

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