Unwounded

ppl. a. [OE. unwundod (UN-¹ 8), = MDu. onghewondet (Du. ongewond). Cf. G. unverwundet.] Not wounded; unhurt.

a. 1000.  Genesis, 183. Ne þær æniʓ com blod of benne, ac him breʓo engla of lice ateah liodende ban, wer unwundod.

c. 1200.  Ormin, 14735. All swa summ Ysaac attbrasst Unnwundedd & unnwemmedd.

c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 1280. Riȝt fewe went a-wey vn-woundet or take.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 10696. Aiax … vnwoundit, i-wis, out of wothe paste.

c. 1450.  St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 7098. Cuthbert men vnwoundid eschapid.

1502.  Atkynson, trans. De Imitatione, III. xl. (1893), 229. If thou vse nat on euery hande thy shylde of pacyence, thou shalt nat be longe vnwounded.

1614.  Tomkis, Albumazar, I. vii. With these walk as unwounded as Achilles, Dipp’d by his mother Thetis.

1651.  Davenant, Gondibert, II. III. xl. Vex’d that the Empire which your wounds did gaine, Was by a young unwounded Army fought!

1700.  Dryden, Ovid’s Met., XIII. 434. Hector from the Field unwounded went.

1777.  Potter, Æschylus, Choephoræ, 376. [The] envenom’d viper, That poisons with a touch th’ unwounded body.

1831.  Scott, Ct. Rob., xvi. He covered his eyes with the unwounded hand.

1863.  W. C. Baldwin, Afr. Hunting, vi. 185. An unwounded cow giraffe.

  fig. and transf.  1579.  E. K., Gloss. to Spenser’s Sheph. Cal., Oct., 41. Woundlesse armour, vnwounded in warre, doe rust through long peace.

1622.  Fletcher, Span. Cur., I. i. We may hear praises when they are deserv’d, Our modesty unwounded.

1624.  Massinger, Parl. Love, V. i. Provided my fair name Had been unwounded.

1735.  Pope, Ep. Lady, 260. She, who can … hear Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear.

1816.  Southey, Poet’s Pilgr., II. iii. 169. Unwounded here Judæa’s balm distill’d Its precious juice.

1818.  Milman, Samor, IV. 406. The beardless Troilus, Unwounded by soft Cresseide’s arrowy eyes.

  absol.  1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 517. I expect … that the healed will accompany me as undisturbedly as the unwounded along our future progress.