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  1.  Not spiritually mortified or subdued: a. Of passions, desires, etc.

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c. 1450.  trans. De Imitatione, I. iii. 5. What lettiþ þe more … þan þin unmortified affeccion of herte?

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1612.  T. Taylor, Comm. Titus ii. 12. These lusts are fitter for the course of nature vnmortified.

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1671.  Woodhead, St. Teresa, II. xii. 101. Their passions are unmortified.

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a. 1695.  Z. Cradock, Serm. Charity (1740), 18. His yet unmortified Lusts and Passions.

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1748.  Hartley, Observ. Man, II. iv. § 4. 415. He finds many unmortified Desires … in his best Words and Actions.

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1857.  Susanna Winkworth, trans. Life Tauler, 390. He who wishes to … subdue such an unmortified nature.

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  b.  Of persons (or the heart).

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1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 160. Ye unmortified herte hath not the housholde of ye soule in suche peace.

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1641.  Milton, Animadv., 57. Unconfessing and unmortify’d sinners.

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1691.  Hartcliffe, Virtues, 210. As thou wouldst not demonstrate thy self to be a rash and unmortified Person.

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1748.  Richardson, Clarissa (1811), III. xxi. 127. By his soul (the unmortified creature swore,) … he was now in earnest in his good resolutions. Ibid., 166. An unmortified libertine.

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1894.  Hedley, Retreat, xviii. 207. No one can be relaxed, unmortified, and lazy, and at the same time desire to love God with … a whole heart.

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  2.  Sc. Law. Not disposed of by mortification.

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1467.  Sc. Acts, Jas. III. (1814), II. 90. Þe soume … to be Raisit of all lordis,… and vþeris quhatsumeuer hafand land vtouth burgh vnmortifijt.

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  3.  Not affected by gangrene.

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1732.  Monro, Anat. (ed. 2), 18. An unmortified Part … can have Nerves…, and yet enjoy no Sensation.

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  Hence Unmortifiedness.

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1643.  T. Goodwin, Trial Christian’s Growth, II. iii. (1651), 73. This argues much unmortifyednesse, though it run not out into acts.

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a. 1677.  Manton, Disc. Peace, Wks. 1871, II. 66. The more men increase in grace … the more they know their emptiness, unmortifiedness, and manifold sins.

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1727.  Biog. Presbyt. (1827), I. 338. I have seen some … become fearful Examples of Apostacy, in Covetousness and Unmortifiedness.

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