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unˈtorn, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
1. Not torn or lacerated.
c1547Gardiner in Foxe A. & M. (1563) 751 We shoulde not..mangle them or cut them, but suffer them to stand vntorne. 1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 18 They..Leaue yet no leaues vntorne that may be seene. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. i. (1626) 3 The yet-free Earth..(Vntorne with ploughs). 1649F. Roberts Clavis Bibl. 513 Preserving them un-torn in the Lyons Den. 1791Cowper Iliad xxiv. 26 Apollo, with compassion touch'd Ev'n of the lifeless Hector,..preserved him, although dragg'd, untorn. 1855Browning Saul v, Our sheep..are white and untorn by the bushes. 1890Retrospect Med. CII. 249 The..tissue is usually torn through in front,..but remains untorn behind.
2. Not taken away by force.
c1691South Serm. (1717) V. 443 As long as that small remainder of Land, belonging to the Church, shall continue yet untorn from her. |