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

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.

And it smiles with Holbein's own undebased handiwork throughout.

From Holbein by Fortescue, Beatrice

In the visage of man, uncorrupted and undebased, we read the frankness and ingenuousness of his soul, the clearness of his reflections, the penetration of his spirit.

From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by Godwin, William

We have due respect for the Jackson editors in the West, but we trust to be believed when we say our respect is undebased by fear.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben