undebased
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But thy free bounty, undebased by pride, Prompt to anticipate the meek request, Unask'd the wants of modest Worth supplied, And spared the pang that shook the suppliant's breast.
From Poems (1828) by Gent, Thomas
For we are all undebased by slavery; and there is no land behind us, nor does even the sea afford a refuge, whilst the Roman fleet hovers around.
From The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus, Cornelius
His pride, if we must call it so, undebased by the least tincture of mere vanity, was intertwined with a most exquisite charity, and was not inconsistent with true humility.
From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous
It was preparing the nation for a future life of great purposes, by purifying it in the crucible of affliction, and preserving the people pure and undebased.
From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.
A tale which does not interest fails essentially, and novelty, in the undebased sense of the word, is the root of interest.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders
