undebased
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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
A Moment's Halt—Pray see this charming, chaste Ladies' Home Journal—"On the New Shirt Waist"— "Advice to Girls," and so forth—here is reach'd The Nothing women yearn for, undebased!
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne by Gelett Burgess
Therefore, with unencumbered soul I go Before the footstool of my Maker, where I hope to stand as undebased as now!
From Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by W. E. (William Edmondstoune) Aytoun
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 Robert Saunders Dowst
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 Thomas Gent
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