ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1420–2. Lydg., Thebes, II. 1714. That he … Myght allone regnen in quiete;… Vnperturbed of Polymyte his brother.
1611. Cotgr., Impassible,… vnpassionate, vnperturbed.
1671. R. MacWard, True Non-conf., 389. What in the ordinary and unperturbed condition of things would be accounted … an usurpation.
1674. Boyle, Excell. Theol., II. iii. 150. The great plenty of unperturbed light that is reflected from snow.
1823. Scott, Quentin D., xxvi. The King,… unperturbed by the … violent gestures of the Duke.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., vi. His own love seemed a guarantee of hers, since it was one with the unperturbed delight in her image.
Hence Unperturbedness.
1676. Hale, Contempl., II. (1677), 149. Nothing so much gratifies an ill Tongue, as when it finds an angry hearer: nor nothing so much disappoints and vexeth it as Calmness and Unperturbedness.
1867. Legge, Confucius, 265. A calm unperturbedness may be attained.
