Untinctured

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  fig. Untinged, uncolored, unaffected. Const. by or with.

1760–2.  Goldsm., Cit. W., lxvi. Simple gratitude, untinctured with love.

1769.  E. Bancroft, Guiana, 329. They are not untinctured with vanity.

1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist., II. 397. [Zebras] caught sufficiently young, so as to be untinctured by their original state of wildness.

1801.  Lusignan, I. 113. A degree of awe … not untinctured with [fear].

1866.  Q. Rev., April, 327. Oracles of the common law, but untinctured by scholarship.

1874.  H. Rogers, Orig. Bible, i. 43. Virtue … untinctured with … austerity.

  2.  In literal use; spec. in Her.

1880.  Warren, Book-plates, ii. 10. The arms are … at that period untinctured.