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1645.  Hammond, Death-bed Repent., 29. When the hard heart is unsoftned, unhumbled.

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1715.  Atterbury, Serm. (1734), III. 121. Impatient of Delay, and unsoftned by all these Applications.

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1789.  T. Twining, Aristotle’s Treat. Poetry, 352. The unsoftened and unflattered character of Achilles.

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1802.  Noble Wanderers, II. 143. The multitude of his sins were unsoftened by a single charity.

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1855.  [J. R. Leifchild], Cornwall, 76. The same primitive rock … is still durable and unsoftened.

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1857.  N. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1870), II. 291. Scenery … with very hard outlines, which are unsoftened … by any foliage.

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