Read full poem →But hark, what shouts, what gath'ring crowds rejoice!
Unstained their praise by any venal voice,
Such as th' ambitious vainly think their due,
Dictionary Entry
Not dyed or discolored.
In a Sentence
“The unstained hardwood floor was pale, but the finish soaked in and made the room seem dark.”
Origin
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Poetry examples for “unstained”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Stared down at him with its cold, white glare
Unstained! The Shadow was not there!
Paul clutched and tore at his tightening throat.
Read full poem →Another beauty, divine and feminine,
Child to the sun, a nymph whose soul unstained
Could love all day, and never hate or tire,
Read full poem →The soil where first they trod!
They have left unstained what there they found—
Freedom to worship God!
Read full poem →And princely giver, who hast brought the gold
And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold,
And laid them on the outside of the wall
Read full poem →The hooked chariot stood,
Unstained with hostile blood;
The trumpet spake not to the armed throng;
Read full poem →Of England's Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both unstained with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content,
Read full poem →For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,
And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.
Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days
