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Unwemmit, -yt, ppl. adj. Also: -wemyt, -uem(m)yt, wn(w)emmyt, -uemmyt, onwemmyt, umwemmyt, (unwennyt). [ME and e.m.E. unwemmede (c1175), unnwemmedd (Orm); Wemmyt ppl. adj.]

1. Immaculate, pure, unblemished. a. Of a person. Also const. of (a state or condition, etc.). b. Of a material. c. Of a state or condition. d. Of words or speech.a. (1) a1400 Leg. S. iii 500.
Quhow that lame quhen he is slane … dwellis ay elyke Vnwemmyt in his lestand ryk a1400 Leg. S. ix 136.
A vnwemmyt virgine c1520-c1535 Nisbet Colloss. i 22.
To haue you halie, and vnwemmyt, and without repreef before him(b) 1513 Doug. x Prol. 106.
Thow tuke mankynd of ane onwemmyt maid(2) a1400 Leg. S. xxix 539.
Of filth of syne scho vnuemmyt wes 1456 14th Rep. Hist. MSS App. iii 11.
Thru the verdyt of the … assyse … the forsaide Andro of all the forsaide actionis allvtrelly was made qwhit and vn-wemytb. a1400 Leg. S. iii 442.
Firste man, that wes mad Of vnwemmyt erd a1400 Leg. S. ix 134.
Adame, That wrocht w[e]s of vmwemmyt lamec. a1400 Leg. S. xxviii 39.
[Scho] kepyt euire hyre madynhed In body and treutht wnuemmyt ay 14.. Reg. Maj. c. 28.
That ilk concorde to kep & obserwe hal & vel & fra thin furth vnvemmytd. 1460 Hay Alex. 10308.
Quha-sa has his speiche gros and ground With wourdis clere vnwemmyt hale and sound

e. Of foodstuffs: Unspoilt. 14.. Acts I 35/2.
It [sc. fish] sal be hadde unwemmyt to bryng it to the mercate 1471 Peebles B. Rec. I 167.
Gyf ony sic gudis [sc. fish, meat, butter, cheese, etc.] cummes vnder nycht to be sald it sal be present on the morn to the merkat cors hal vnvemyt

2. a. Of the body: Unmarked by injury, unscarred. b. Of non-material things: Unhurt, unscathed.a. 1375 Barb. xx 382, 386.
Quhen he wnwemmyt [C. vnwemmyt] gan it [sc. his face] se He said that he had gret ferly That swilk a knycht … Mycht in the face wnemmyt [C. vnwemmyt] beb. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1015.
Vnwemmit [L. Vnwemmyt] wit deliuerit of dangair 1513 Doug. i Prol. 51.
Thocht I offend, onwemmyt [Sm. onhermit, Ruddim. vnwennyt] is thy fame