unmixedly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]unmixedly (comparative more unmixedly, superlative most unmixedly)
- In a way that is not mixed or adulterated; wholly, entirely.
- 1882, H.D. Traill, Sterne[1]:
- But there are, nevertheless, plenty of passages, both in Tristram Shandy and the Sentimental Journey, where the intention is wholly and unmixedly pathetic--where the smile is not for a moment meant to compete with the tear--which are, nevertheless, it must be owned, complete failures, and failures traceable with much certainty, or so it seems to me, to the artistic error above-mentioned.
- 1908, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Age of Shakespeare[2]:
- Nor was ever any great writer's influence upon his fellows more utterly and unmixedly an influence for good.