ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not subjected to trouble or disquiet.
1484. Acta Auditorum (1839), *146/2. Þe said venerable fader … salbe vntrublit for þat some.
1531. Reg. Privy Seal Scot., II. 134/2. The saidis personis … to be … unmolestit, and untrublit, for quhatsumever actioun or cryme.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. i. 33. Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best. Ibid., II. vii. 15. With how small allowaunce Vntroubled Nature doth her selfe suffise.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Love’s Pilgrimage, IV. ii. Make your spirit an untroubled way To pass to what it ought.
1648. Boyle, Seraphick Love (1659), 14. A sight, whose glory made them look on fading Beauties, with … untroubled eyes.
1671. Milton, P. R., IV. 401. Our Saviour meek and with untroubl’d mind … betook him to his rest.
1743. Francis, trans. Hor., Odes, II. x. 17. He who enjoys th’ untroubled Breast, Of Virtue’s awful Lore possest.
1816. Wilson, Misc. Poems, 268. Thou with that untroubled voice.
1846. Mrs. A. Marsh, Father Darcy, II. ii. 62. The priest preserved all the usual untroubled gravity and dignity of his demeanour.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 246. Untroubled by care or consuming anxiety.
2. Not rendered turbid. Also fig.
c. 1614. Sir W. Mure, Dido & Æneas, II. 776. Whose vertew’s streame vntrubled still runnes pure.
1662. Charleton, Myst. Vintners (1675), 191. The equal distribution of the Spirits of the liquor, which always rendreth bodies clear and untroubled.
1810. Southey, Kehama, X. iv. The stream … there delights to lie, Untroubled and at rest Beneath the untainted sky.
182[?]. Mrs. Hemans, Evening Prayer, iv. Fresh within your breasts th’ untroubled springs Of hope make melody.
Hence Untroubledness.
a. 1660. Hammond, Wks. (1683), IV. 479. He hath … robb’d … the Sceptick of his indifference and untroubledness.
