Unscathed

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8. Cf. ON. and Icel. ú-, óskaðaðr, MSw. oskadhad, Sw. oskadad.)

  Before 19th cent. Sc. and somewhat rare.

c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, vii. (James min.), 608. Þat I and þai … In gud fath sal vnschait be.

1425.  Sc. Acts Parlt., Jas. I. (1814), II. 11/2. Quhil it be knawin … at þe cuntre be vnscaithit of þaim.

1461.  Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1814), I. 22. That man … sal … kepe the toun vnscathit … of all dettis and chargis acht be hym.

1567–8.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 613. To be unharmit, unskaythit, or unmolestit be ony of the liegis.

1787.  Burns, Tam Samson’s Elegie, xvii. Unskaith’d by Death’s gleg gullie, Tam Samson’s livin!

1827.  Lytton, Falkland, 25. I passed through the ordeal unshrinking, yet not unscathed.

a. 1852.  Buckle, Misc. Wks. (1872), I. 103. That intellect which had conducted them unscathed through such … dangers.

1882.  A. W. Ward, Dickens, i. 9. Whatever his experiences of this kind may have been, he passed unscathed through them.