unpurgedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unpurged (comparative more unpurged, superlative most unpurged)

1. Not purged.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     […] What, is Brutus sick,
     And will he steal out of his wholesome bed,
     To dare the vile contagion of the night
     And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
     To add unto his sickness?

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 414-420:

     […] whatever was created, needs
     To be sustaind and fed; of Elements
     The grosser feeds the purer, earth the sea,
     Earth and the Sea feed Air, the Air those Fires
     Ethereal, and as lowest first the Moon;
     Whence in her visage round those spots, unpurg’d
     Vapours not yet into her substance turnd.

   • 1909, E. W. Hornung, chapter 15, in Mr. Justice Raffles‎, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 229:

     Kindly note that your trial is resumed, and further contempt will not be allowed to go unpurged.

   • 1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles' King Oedipus:

     And even if the god had not spurred us to it, it were a wrong to leave the guilt unpurged, when one so noble, and he your king, had perished