undebased

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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

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

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

From Holbein by Fortescue, Beatrice

Oh! thine be the gladness and mine be the guilt, Forgive me adored one—forsake if thou wilt, But the heart which I bear shall expire undebased, And man shall not break it—whatever thou mayest.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 373, Supplementary Number by Various