unmixedly

unmixedly

English

Etymology

unmixed +‎ -ly

Adverb

unmixedly (comparative more unmixedly, superlative most unmixedly)

1. In a way that is not mixed or adulterated; wholly, entirely.
   • 1882, H.D. Traill, Sterne‎:

     But there are, nevertheless, plenty of passages, both in Tristram Shandy and the Sentimental Journey, where the intention is wholly and unmixedly pathetic--where the smile is not for a moment meant to compete with the tear--which are, nevertheless, it must be owned, complete failures, and failures traceable with much certainty, or so it seems to me, to the artistic error above-mentioned.

   • 1908, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Age of Shakespeare‎:

     Nor was ever any great writer's influence upon his fellows more utterly and unmixedly an influence for good.