Meanings
comparative more unmixedly · superlative most unmixedly
- In a way that is not mixed or adulterated; wholly, entirely.
Nor was ever any great writer's influence upon his fellows more utterly and unmixedly an influence for good.
1908, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Age of Shakespeare1 more example
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.
1882, H.D. Traill, Sterne
Origin
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