Adulterate vs Unmixedly - What's the difference?
adulterate | unmixedly |
Tending to commit adultery.
* , I.v.
Corrupted; impure; adulterated.
To corrupt.
To spoil by adding impurities.
* Spectator
To commit adultery.
To defile by adultery.
In a way that is not mixed or adulterated; wholly, entirely.
* {{quote-book, year=1882, author=H.D. Traill, title=Sterne, chapter=, edition=
, passage=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. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1908, author=Algernon Charles Swinburne, title=The Age of Shakespeare, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Nor was ever any great writer's influence upon his fellows more utterly and unmixedly an influence for good. }}
As an adjective adulterate
is tending to commit adultery.As a verb adulterate
is to corrupt.As an adverb unmixedly is
in a way that is not mixed or adulterated; wholly, entirely.adulterate
English
(wikipedia adulterate)Adjective
(en adjective)- Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
- With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts-
- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
- So to seduce!- won to his shameful lust
- The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.
Verb
(adulterat)- to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coins, etc.
- The present war has adulterated our tongue with strange words.
- (Milton)
Synonyms
* debaseDerived terms
* adulterant * adulterationReferences
* ----unmixedly
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