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undiˈverted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not turned aside.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. ix. 57 Though these Grounds have not any patent Passages, whereby to derive Water and Fatness from the River, and therefore must suffer the greatest part of it to run by them undiverted. a1711Ken Psyche Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 205, I was ambitious of that Height, To gain of Heav'n an undiverted Sight. 1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 313 By a patient continuance and undiverted attention to academical studies. 1859Miss Mulock Dom. Stories (1862) 124 Her mind, undiverted from the past by any charms of the present, became dead to all outward impressions. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 308 Such persons find it difficult to read their Bible in undiverted remembrance of what it is.
2. Not entertained or amused.
1792G. Wakefield Mem. 8 The reader, however, may not be undiverted with its unaffected simplicity and pathos. |