unwemmed
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Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + wemmed, past participle of wemmen (“to blemish, spoil, wound”).
Adjective
[edit]unwemmed
- untainted, pure
- c. 1387, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Man of Law's Tale", Canterbury Tales
- Þe þeef fil over bord al sodeynly, / And in þe see he dreynte for vengeance; / And þus haþ Crist unwemmed kept Custance.
- c. 1387, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Man of Law's Tale", Canterbury Tales