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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unalloyed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an unalloyed victory
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result there ceases to exist unalloyed the direct feedback, characteristic of primitive societies, between natural conditions and consciousness.
▪ At first glance, it looked like unalloyed good news.
▪ However, the theory of unalloyed benefit to plants does not translate into practice.
▪ In hindsight, an unalloyed catastrophe of monstrous proportions was inevitable.
▪ Strong culture's benefits do not come unalloyed, nor without cost.
▪ That, however, is not a posture which, as yet, commands unalloyed respect within the United Kingdom.
▪ Without foreign or extraneous admixture; free from anything not properly pertaining to it; homogeneous, unalloyed.
▪ Yet its original presentation at the Berlin Festival was by no means an unalloyed success.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unalloyed

Unalloyed \Un`al*loyed"\, a. Not alloyed; not reduced by foreign admixture; unmixed; unqualified; pure; as, unalloyed metals; unalloyed happiness.

I enjoyed unalloyed satisfaction in his company.
--Mitford.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unalloyed

1670s (figurative); 1760s (literal), from un- (1) "not" + past participle of alloy (v.).

Wiktionary
unalloyed

a. 1 (of metal) Not alloyed; not in mixture with other metals; pure. 2 complete and unreserved; pure; unadulterated; not restricted, modify, or qualify by reservations.

WordNet
unalloyed

adj. used of metals

Usage examples of "unalloyed".

In such an entity this primal and eternal Being cannot be dead like stone or plank: it must be alive, and that with a life unalloyed as long as it remains self-gathered: when the primal Being blends with an inferior principle, it is hampered in its relation to the highest, but without suffering the loss of its own nature since it can always recover its earliest state by turning its tendency back to its own.

Intellectual-Principle from being present, unalloyed, within the soul?

Primarily existent, the Good, above all that has being, good unalloyed, containing nothing in itself, utterly unmingling, all-transcending, cause of all.

To know the nature of a thing we must observe it in its unalloyed state, since any addition obscures the reality.

But what precludes the Intellectual-Principle from being present, unalloyed, within the soul?

Intellectual-Principle which we have found to be identical with the truths constituting the objects of intellection, the world of Primals and Reality: for this Intellectual-Principle, by very definition, cannot be outside of itself, the Intellectual Reality: self-gathered and unalloyed, it is Intellectual-Principle through all the range of its being--for unintelligent intelligence is not possible--and thus it possesses of necessity self-knowing, as a being immanent to itself and one having for function and essence to be purely and solely Intellectual-Principle.

Thus is revealed to us the Primarily existent, the Good, above all that has being, good unalloyed, containing nothing in itself, utterly unmingling, all-transcending, cause of all.

Whether he was telling Maxwell Delmari that Audrey was hearing music every day, or writing to Sandy Joy about the Hands of Grace program, his words inevitably held the accents of unalloyed reality.

If the time was not one of complete and unalloyed joy to Emily,--and we must fear that it was not,--it is to be remembered that but very little complete and unalloyed joy is allowed to sojourners in that vale of tears, even though they have been but two months married.

One great occasion he had on which it was his privilege to explain to four or five hundred gentlemen the insuperable reasons which caused him to break away from those right honourable friends to act with whom had been his comfort and his duty, his great joy and his unalloyed satisfaction.

She had at any rate learned from her misfortunes the infinite tenderness of his heart, which in the days of the unalloyed prosperity he had never felt the necessity of expressing to her.

He leaned on the railing of the cot and gazed down at her in unalloyed bliss.

But there had never been a man in her life so constant as Grillo, or in the end so unalloyed in his affections.

I stood wavering on my feet, praying I would neither vomit nor faint, while a hundred eyes stared at me with unalloyed contempt.

The Mahrkagir watched it with unalloyed pleasure, one hand on his wine-cup, one hand on me, eager as a boy for the spectacle.