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UNDISTURBED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Untroubled by interference or disturbance
Example:
he could pursue his studies undisturbed
Classified under:
Similar:
untroubled (not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress)
Context examples:
For the current study, Büntgen and his collaborators, sampled more than 1100 living and dead mountain pines from the Spanish Pyrenees and 660 Siberian larch samples from the Russian Altai: both high-elevation forest sites that have been undisturbed for thousands of years.
(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)
I was undisturbed by thoughts which during the preceding year had pressed upon me, notwithstanding my endeavours to throw them off, with an invincible burden.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
At length, the steady ticking of the undisturbed clock on the wall tormented me to that degree that I resolved to go to bed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
These reflections were long indulged undisturbed by any address from her companion, who sat as deep in thought as herself; and the appearance of the carriage was the first thing to startle and recall them to the present moment.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Grant, by his attentive wife, though it was not to be supposed so—and Miss Crawford took her harp, she had nothing to do but to listen; and her tranquillity remained undisturbed the rest of the evening, except when Mr. Crawford now and then addressed to her a question or observation, which she could not avoid answering.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
As his curate, his comrade, all would be right: I would cross oceans with him in that capacity; toil under Eastern suns, in Asian deserts with him in that office; admire and emulate his courage and devotion and vigour; accommodate quietly to his masterhood; smile undisturbed at his ineradicable ambition; discriminate the Christian from the man: profoundly esteem the one, and freely forgive the other.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I tried to conceal this as much as possible, that I might not debar him from the pleasures natural to one who was entering on a new scene of life, undisturbed by any care or bitter recollection.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I made no effort to conceal from myself, now, that I loved her, that I was devoted to her; but I brought the assurance home to myself, that it was now too late, and that our long-subsisting relation must be undisturbed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Catherine, meanwhile, undisturbed by presentiments of such an evil, or of any evil at all, except that of having but a short set to dance down, enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I suspect the truth to be, that the influence of Agnes was upon me, undisturbed by the sight of him; and that it was the more powerful with me, because she had so large a share in my thoughts and interest.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
