Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not perverted; not wrested or turned to a wrong sense or use.
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- adjective Not
perverted .
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Examples
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These forms are such as unperverted nature and the highest art alike require.
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These forms are such as unperverted nature and the highest art alike require.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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Little Jesuit inquisitress as she was, she could see things in a true light, and understand them in an unperverted sense; but the idea that she had ventured to communicate information, thus gained, to others; that she had, perhaps, amused herself with a companion over documents, in my eyes most sacred, shocked me cruelly.
Villette 2003
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How many thousands have become murderers and robbers, bigots and domestic tyrants, dissolute and abandoned adventurers, from the use of fermented liquors; who, had they slaked their thirst only with pure water, would have lived but to diffuse the happiness of their own unperverted feelings!
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To a young girl, to every unperverted young girl, it is an act extremely unnatural, just as it is to children.
The Kreutzer Sonata 2003
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In this set of rejections the New Left clearly denies the whole set of original, unperverted meanings of authority.
AUTHORITY LEONARD KRIEGER 1968
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Yet, notwithstanding all these things, no one endeavoured to vindicate me from this calumny; while great exertion was employed to frame excuses for Trelcatius, by means of a qualified interpretation of his words, though it was utterly impossible to reconcile their palliative explanations with the plain signification of his unperverted expressions.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956
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Such, except where guilt seeks annihilation as the choice of evils, is the unperverted, universal longing after God and immortality.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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When mothers are able to send us strong, healthy girls, with simple habits and unperverted tastes, we will return to them and the world strong, healthy women, fitted, physically and mentally, for woman's work.
The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett
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It is worthy of remark, that in choosing his disciples he chose plain men from the laboring classes, who had lived the most obediently to the simple, unperverted laws of nature.
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