Unhurt

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8 b.)

a. 1225.  Juliana, 31. Þe worldes wealdent þat wiste sein iuhan … unhurt iþe ueat of wallinde eoli.

1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 165. Sche passed unhert nyne brennynge cultres.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 1264. His shafte all-to sheuerit, the shalke was unhurt.

c. 1440.  Alph. Tales, 25. If þine arm com vp vnhurte.

c. 1460.  Oseney Reg., 144. And I and myne heyres that howse schall kepe vn-hurt, that hit be not … apeyred by owr vse.

1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, Indistrictus,… vnhurte: without scarre.

1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 9 b/2. With the short of a gunne, the first table was vnhurte.

1601.  [see UNHIT].

1647.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb., II. § 7. They believed there [were] … no Persons of what Quality soever unconcerned and … unhurt in them [sc. matters of religion].

1676.  Hobbes, Iliad, I. 397. Would you could here rest Unhurt, ungriev’d.

1718.  Prior, Pict. Seneca Dying, 11. While unhurt, divine Jordain, Thy Work and Seneca’s remain.

1755.  Young, Centaur, iv. His happiness is of so strong a constitution, that it can stand real calamities unhurt.

1818.  [S. Weston], La Scava, 27. A statue of Venus,… the legs and arms are broke, the nose unhurt.

1894.  D. Campbell, Coleridge, i. 12. [He] escaped unhurt from the fray.