ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not eaten or worn away; unimpaired.
1577. Stanyhurst, Hist. Irel., 91/1, in Holinshed, I. At night againe he founde the Paper vnfretted, and musing thereof he beganne to poare on the writing.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. iii. 84. Shewing that the shell was … eaten away,… but the thin skin … continu’d altogether unfretted.
1894. Mrs. A. Webster, Mother & Dau. (1895), 30.
| She with her happy gaze finds all that’s best, | |
| She sees this fair, and that unfretted still, | |
| And her own sunshine over all the rest. |
2. Not vexed or worried.
1870. E. Peacock, Ralf Skirl., III. 47. When his mind was sufficiently unfretted.
1893. Atlantic Monthly, Feb., 283. He is … unfretted by the cares of housekeeping.
