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  1.  Not despoiled or plundered; not taken as plunder.

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c. 1500.  Melusine, xxxvi. 256. None passed by the said Fortresse vnspoyled.

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1513.  Life Henry V. (1911), 34. All Churches and hallowed houses shoulde be kepte inviolat, vnspoyled and vnharmed.

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1577.  Dee, General & Rare Mem., 4. Their Marchantlike Ships … may … pas quietly vnpilled, vnspoyled, and vntaken by Pyrates.

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1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 268. The Bassa … began … with fire and sword to wast that part of the countrey which yet remained vnspoiled.

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1697.  Dryden, Æneis, XI. 890. Unspoil’d shall be her Arms, and unprofan’d Her holy Limbs with any Human Hand.

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1802.  J. Baillie, 2nd Pt. Ethwald, I. ii. A land of peace! Where yellow fields unspoil’d … smile gladly.

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1870.  Bryant, Iliad, V. I. 177. He left the corpse of Periphas unspoiled where he had fallen.

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  2.  Not spoiled or deteriorated.

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1732.  Pope, Ep. Bathurst, 226. O teach us, Bathurst! yet unspoil’d by wealth! That secret rare.

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1746.  Collins, Ode to Pity, iv. He sung the female heart, With youth’s soft notes unspoil’d by art.

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1821.  V. Knox, Grammar Schools, 117. An unspoiled boy,… possessing talent and sensibility.

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1860.  H. Marryat, Resid. Jutland, I. xiv. 209. The Castle of Rosenborg … is a fine specimen of the period, and is unspoiled by modern improvements.

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1888.  Child, Ballads, III. 1/1. This precious specimen … of the unspoiled traditional ballad.

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