Unembellished

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1630.  Fanshawe, Pastor Fido, etc. (1648), 228. Let no darke corner of the land Be unimbellisht with one Gemme.

171[?].  Eusden, in Addison, Cato, A.’s Wks. 1721, I. 266. Such energy of sense might pleasure raise, Tho’ unembellish’d with the charms of phrase.

a. 1763.  Shenstone, Past. Ode Lyttleton, 148. And Grenville … prais’d these unembellish’d woods.

1805.  Wordsw., Prelude, III. 108. Earth, nowhere unembellished by some trace of that first Paradise whence man was driven.

1862.  ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., ix. 416. A literal and unembellished account of the fact.