[UN-1 8.] Not soiled or dirtied. Also in fig. context.
c. 1592. Marlowe, Jew of Malta, II. 419. Lod. This is thy Diamond, tell me, shall I haue it? Bar. Win it, and weare it, it is yet vnsoyl’d.
1649. Lovelace, Poems, 131. Which … Lookes … Like Gold in Canvas, or with dirt Unsoyled Ermins close begirt.
1686. Dryden, To Mem. Mrs. Anne Killigrew, iv. Her Arethusian Stream remains unsoil’d … and undefil’d.
1784. Cowper, Task, IV. 212. Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d and swift.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., iii. A white handkerchief was thrust into the muzzle of the piece, and returned unsoiled or blackened.
1867. Morris, Jason, II. 71. With unsoiled feet scarce touching the wet way.
fig. 1603. Shaks., Meas. for M., II. iv. 155. My vnsoild name, th’ austeerenesse of my life,… Will … your accusation ouerweigh.
1699. Ld. Tarbut, in Pepys’ Diary, etc. (1870), 691. That common opinion that young infants (unsoiled with many objects) do see apparitions which are not seen by those of older years.
1704. D’Urfey, Abrad. & Panthea, i. 9. Yet shall her honour be unsoil’d and clear.
1815. Chalmers, Lett., in Hanna, Life (1850), II. 29. An unsoiled gracefulness and brilliancy of character.
1848. G. P. R. James, Sir T. Broughton, I. viii. 159. Her heart was free, her spirit unsoiled by the world.
