[
US
/ənˈsteɪnd/
]
[ UK /ʌnstˈeɪnd/ ]
[ UK /ʌnstˈeɪnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- without soil or spot or stain
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not stained
An apron keeps his clothing unstained - not having a coating of stain or varnish
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(of reputation) free from blemishes
his unsullied name
an untarnished reputation
How To Use unstained In A Sentence
- Seeds were cleared and compared with unstained seeds using a dissecting scope.
- Dolomite is stained purple, calcite is unstained in the alkaline solution.
- But on the doorstone he found three drops shaken, dried now but plain to be seen, and on the new and unstained timber with which the left jamb of the doorway had been repaired there was a blurred smear of blood at the level of his own shoulder, where a gashed and bloodied sleeve had brushed past. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
- They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine; the eagle, soaring amidst the cloud — they all gathered round me, and bade me be at peace. Chapter 10
- The unstained region around the periphery of most cells was almost certainly an artefact of plasmolysis, indicated by occasional contact points between plasmalemma and cell wall plasmodesmata.
- The time will soon come; grief and famine have already sapped the foundations of my being; a very short time, and I shall have passed away; unstained by the crime of self-destruction, unstung by the memory of degradation, my spirit will throw aside the miserable coil, and find such recompense as fortitude and resignation may deserve. The Last Man
- The samples were examined unstained and stained, using low and high power magnifications.
- The unstained region around the periphery of most cells was almost certainly an artefact of plasmolysis, indicated by occasional contact points between plasmalemma and cell wall plasmodesmata.
- However, roots from 14-d-old plants were stained preferentially in the vascular tissues, whilst the ground tissue and root cap remained unstained.
- He was a sort of catholic Manfred, and unstained by crime, carrying his choiceness into his faith, melting the snows by the fires of a sealed volcano, holding converse with a star seen by himself alone! Honorine