Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not depraved or corrupted.
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- adjective obsolete Not morally
depraved orcorrupted .
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Examples
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The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
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But it was not the boy's judgment which led him to this; it was his undepraved ear, and his native energy of mind, teaching him to respue this effeminate style of versification.
Review 2005
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The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
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"The man must be a prodigy," Mr. Morgan quotes Jefferson as saying, "who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."
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If men judge the faculties of their souls to be undepraved, their minds free from vanity, their hearts from guile and deceit, their wills from perverseness and carnality, I wonder not on what grounds they despise the prayers of others, but should do so to find real humiliation and fervency in their own.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
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Yet it cannot be regarded with pleasure by any reader of undepraved taste; and
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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Yet it is imaginable, even to an undepraved mind, that a woman might sometimes like to be on the other side of the fence, to view the mad bull of publicity in its own pasture, and feel that it cannot gore her.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various
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The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 William Frederick Poole
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The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams
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