untinctured

English

Etymology

un- +‎ tinctured

Adjective

untinctured (not comparable)

(often figuratively) Not tinctured; not tainted or coloured (with or by something)
- 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, Letter VII,
  It is no wonder that the heart of a female, unimproved by reason, and untinctured with natural good sense, should flutter at the sight of such a gaudy thing […]
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume III, Chapter 2,
  […] two or three little circumstances occurred ere they parted, which, in her anxious interpretation, denoted a recollection of Jane, not untinctured by tenderness, and a wish of saying more that might lead to the mention of her, had he dared.
- 1918 May 9, Lytton Strachey, “[Florence Nightingale.] Chapter III”, in Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon (Library of English Literature; LEL 11347), London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 920474333, page 152:
  Perhaps out of England such an intimacy could hardly have existed—an intimacy so utterly untinctured not only by passion itself but by the suspicion of it.

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