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  1.  Not made sear; unwithered.

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1599.  Thynne, Animadv. (1875), 48. That is, (as some do expounde this worde vnseriall) vnsered, vnsinged, vnwithered.

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1829.  J. L. Knapp, Jrnl. Nat., 102. Preserving … a portion of its foliage unseared by frosts.

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a. 1847.  Eliza Cook, Like the Evergreen, iii. It remaineth unseared in the deluge of light.

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  fig.  1827.  Pollok, Course T., III. 153. The stripling youth of plump, unseared hope.

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1863.  W. Lancaster, Præterita, 37. We’ll keep a merry heart up still, Unsered, fresh, young, and callow.

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  2.  Not made hard or callous.

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1860.  Trench, Serm. Westm. Abbey, vi. 59. Many things which he would have shrunk back from at first, while his conscience was yet unseared.

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