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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., III. iii. 38. T’afflict the other Saxons vnsubdewd.

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a. 1628.  F. Grevil, Sidney (1652), 99. The yet unsubdued Princes of Germany.

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c. 1630.  Sanderson, Serm., II. 312. There may lurk in our hearts some secret noysome lust undiscovered, and so unsubdued.

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1712.  Blackmore, Creation, IV. 9. If dread of death still unsubdued remains.

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1794.  S. Williams, Vermont, 170. His passions unsubdued, undisciplined.

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1831.  G. P. R. James, Phil. Augustus, II. iv. The still unsubdued terror of the bishop.

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1863.  Conington, Horace, Odes, IV. xiv. 8. They know thee now, thy strength in war, Those unsubdued Vindelici.

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  absol.  1835.  Milman, Nala & Damayanti, 32. In his wicked thought the dastard—her yet powerless to subdue, On the unsubdued stood gazing.

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  Hence Unsubduedness.

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a. 1665.  Goodwin, Filled w. the Spirit, vi. (1670), 141. Weakness in Faith,… unsubduedness of the Flesh.

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a. 1732.  T. Boston, Crook in Lot (1805), 165. Unsubduedness of spirit.

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1839.  Pusey, in Liddon, Life (1893), II. 142. Vanity, unsubduedness, self in some form, has been the source of all heresy.

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1878.  Abp. Benson, Lett., in Life (1901), 176. It is, I am afraid, interior unsubduedness.

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