Which word in the passage can help you determine the
meaning of the word undefiled?
Based on context clues, what is the meaning of the
word undefiled as it is used in the passage?
So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with
modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured
to collect examples and authorities from the writers
before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells
of English undefiled, as the pure sources of genuine
diction
- Preface to A Dictionary of the English
Language,
Samuel Johnson