Unclouded

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not obscured or darkened by clouds.

1595.  G. W., On Spenser’s Sonn., 3. But when they see his glorious raies vnclowded, With steddy steps they keepe the perfect way.

1639.  Habington, Castara, II. (Arb.), 91. Th’ unclouded Sun had never showne them day Till that bright minute.

1655.  Vaughan, Silex Scint., II. Ascension-day, 46. All the Planets did unclouded pass.

1765.  Wilkes, Corr. (1805), II. 160. A fine blue the arch of heaven is here,—pure, serene, and unclouded.

1796.  H. Hunter, trans. St.-Pierre’s Stud. Nat. (1799), II. 36. The unclouded azure in the Heavens.

1858.  Lardner, Handbk. Nat. Phil., 377. A clear unclouded sky in the absence of the sun radiates but little heat towards the earth.

1887.  Bowen, Æneid, III. 518. He beholds that the heavens are one unclouded expanse.

  2.  transf. and fig. Not darkened or obscured.

1641.  Milton, Ch. Govt., II. ii. That more then angelick brightnes, the unclouded serenity of Christian Religion.

c. 1645.  Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 355. A clear unclouded countenance.

a. 1711.  Ken, Sion, Poet. Wks. 1721, IV. 398. And where the Mind falls short, Love taking Flight, Obtains of God a more unclouded Sight.

1796.  Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, V. 189. A brighter, though not unclouded scene, was exhibited at Cleves.

1821.  Scott, Kenilw., vi. The graceful ease and unclouded front of an accomplished courtier.

1847.  C. Brontë, J. Eyre, xxxviii. No fear of death will darken St. John’s last hour: his mind will be unclouded.

1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Miner’s Right (1899), 160/2. My conscience was unclouded.

  Hence Uncloudedly adv.; Uncloudedness.

1648.  Boyle, Seraph. Love, iii. (1700), 14. The Love … that makes nothing more conducive to it than the greatest uncloudedness of the Eye.

1804.  Eugenia de Acton, Tale without Title, I. 62. Why then, fond foolish heart, so sad! Think not to pass uncloudedly thy days.