unvitiated

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ vitiated.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈvɪʃieɪtɪd/

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Adjective

unvitiated (comparative more unvitiated, superlative most unvitiated)

1. Not vitiated; pure.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 131:

     Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes— […] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.

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