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1. Unmixed, unadulterated.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Begger, Wks. I. 98/1. Vnsophisticated drinke, That neuer makes men stagger.
1664. Boyle, Exp. touching Colours, 141. Take Blew, but Unsophisticated, Vitriol.
1706. E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), 17. He never wants for two Sorts of Liquors, the Good and the Bad;… and that to be sure unsophisticated with the other.
1861. in Daily Chron., 12 Sept. An infusion made from the unsophisticated [tea-] leaves.
1894. Cosmopolitan, XVII. 128. Pure air and a sky unsophisticated with the lights and smokes of civilization.
2. Not tampered with, altered, or falsified; uncorrupted, genuine.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 438. They shall use the Sword of the Spirit,… which is unsophisticated Reason and Scripture.
1690. D. Granville, Lett. (Surtees), 234. This low ebb of pure unsophisticated devotion.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 128. We preserve the whole of our feelings still native and entire, unsophisticated by pedantry and infidelity.
1843. [Mrs. Maitland], Lett. fr. Madras, p. v. To give the correspondence in its genuine unsophisticated state.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 380. It was difficult to tell … which was the bottom of the canoe and which was the unsophisticated log.
3. Not sophisticated in habits, manners, or mind; natural, ingenuous, inexperienced.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., IV. iii. 16. If some Ladies … were bound to change Dresses with this unsophisticated and unadorn’d Maid.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., II. 362. They shall be … untainted and unsophisticated by the unwholesome Converse of men.
1814. Jane Austen, Mansf. Park, xxiv. Her young, unsophisticated mind.
1854. Thackeray, Newcomes, II. 118. What an unsophisticated little country creature you are!
1873. Tristram, Moab, xiii. 234. Trotter … drew out the unsophisticated fish as fast as he could bait his hook.
Hence Unsophisticatedness.
1858. Abp. Benson, in Life (1899), I. 139. Some … footmen … took away my umbrella, but amazed my unsophisticatedness in making me keep my hat on my head.
1866. Alger, Solit. Nat. & Man, IV. 336. To appreciate natural unsophisticatedness more highly, and conventionality more lowly.
