ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not covered or darkened by shadow.

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1593.  B. Barnes, Poems (Grosart), 10. Whose shadow trembling on her louely face He left vnshadow’d.

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1599.  Daniel, Musophilus, 846. Maiestie … Shining with all her beames, with all her raies,… vnshadowed In any darkened point.

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1682.  Wheler, Journ. Greece, III. 268. Nothing but a Rock … unshadowed by Trees.

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1823.  Mrs. Hemans, Vespers Palermo, III. i. The skies themselves … Unshadow’d by a cloud.

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1855.  [Miss Cobbe], Ess. Intuitive Morals, 111. The true splendour of the Sun … in a heaven of unshadowed light.

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1870.  Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 53. In the unshadowed noontide light.

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  fig.  1649.  Quarles, Virgin Widow, V. i. Thou before whose open eye All unshadow’d secrets lye.

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1661.  Glanvill, Van. Dogm., 238. He alone sees all things with an unshadowed comprehensive Vision, who eminently is All.

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1828.  Ld. Grenville, Sinking Fund, 85. The bare and unshadowed outline of the view … of these interesting topics.

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1891.  Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xxxv. A beauty as yet unshadowed by evil secrets and base desires.

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