unbrokenadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈbrəʊk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌənˈbroʊkən/ 1. Of compacts, etc.: Not broken or infringed; unviolated, inviolate.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > remaining in specified condition
unbrokena1300
unbrokea1325
unperisheda1400
upstandingc1450
unviolate1548
uncancelled1557
yet1608
voidless1642
indissolved1659
standing1673
unruinablea1684
unworn1748
decayless1828
a1300 Cursor Mundi 611 Bot for to hald it wel vnbroken, Þe forbot þat was be-twix þam spoken.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Inviolé, inuiolated, sound, vnbroken.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 691 That Traitor Angel,..Who first broke peace in Heav'n and Faith, till then Unbrok'n . View more context for this quotation
1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. xvii. 20 To sing frail Circe's guilty Fire, And chaste Penelope's unbroken Vow.
2. Of material things: Not broken or fractured; intact, whole.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > whole or intact > unbroken or not cracked
unbrostenc1400
unbroken1495
infract1573
unshaken1573
uncracked1581
unshivered1598
crackless1616
unbroke1632
unshook1633
unshattered1634
unchipped1647
unfractured1742
unruptured1775
unburst1782
indissolute1834
unsnapped1864
fissureless1875
unbreached1876
1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xix. cxxx. 939 Men in olde tyme callyd a thynge yt was hoole and vnbroken, Solidum et Totum.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xviii. 21 [There are] many towers and goodly buildings ruined.., amongst which, one which was vnbroken.
1613 C. Tourneur Griefe on Death Prince Henrie 97 I wonder how Or he or anye other souldier now Can hold his sword unbroken.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 135 His Bowels bruis'd within, Betray no Wound on his unbroken Skin. View more context for this quotation
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 357 Put into the Hogshead ten new-laid Eggs, unbroken or cracked.
1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile II. 460 The seal [was] examined, and declared to be the patriarch's, and unbroken.
1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) III. 218 There is hardly a kitchen utensil left unbroken.
1889 J. C. Jeaffreson Q. of Naples & Nelson I. iii. 93 Escaping..with unbroken bones.
3. Not crushed, humbled, or subdued; not impaired or weakened.
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the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [adjective]
fasteOE
stathelfasteOE
anredOE
hardOE
starkOE
trueOE
steadfast993
fastredeOE
stithc1000
findyOE
stablea1275
stathelyc1275
stiffc1275
stablec1290
steel to the (very) backa1300
unbowinga1300
stably13..
firm1377
unmovablea1382
constantc1386
abidingc1400
toughc1400
sure1421
unmoblea1425
unfaintedc1425
unfaint1436
permanent?a1475
stalwartc1480
unbroken1513
immovable1534
inconcuss1542
unshaken1548
stout1569
unwavering1570
undiscourageable1571
fixed1574
discourageable1576
unappalled1578
resolute1579
unremoved1583
resolved1585
unflexiblea1586
unshakeda1586
square1589
unstooping1597
iron1598
rocky1601
steady1602
undeclinable1610
unboweda1616
unfainting1615
unswayed1615
staunch1624
undiscourageda1628
staid1631
unshook1633
blue?1636
true blue?1636
tenacious1640
uncomplying1643
yieldless1651
riveting1658
unshakened1659
inconquerable1660
unyielding1677
unbendinga1688
tight1690
unswerving1694
unfaltering1727
unsubmitting1730
undeviating1732
undrooping1736
impervertible1741
undamped1742
undyingc1765
sturdy1775
stiff as a poker1798
unfickle1802
indivertible1821
thick and thin1822
undisheartened1827
inconvertible1829
straightforward1829
indomitable1830
stickfast1831
unsuccumbing1833
unturnable1847
unswerved1849
undivertible1856
unforsaking1862
swerveless1863
steeve1870
rock-ribbed1884
stiff in the back1897
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. i. 4 Turnus..saw thar curage faill,..Quhilk war tofor onbrokin and stowt of hart.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 John ii. f. xlvi A mynde that is vnbroken and vnconquered agaynst al wanton enticementes.
1609 B. Jonson Masque of Queens in Wks. (1660) 960 A Heroine of a most inuincible and vnbroken fortitude.
a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) v. vi. 88 If thy heart, Thy worthie, manly heart be yet unbroken . View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 531 But glancing thence, the yet unbroken Force Took a new bent obliquely.
1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. ii. 288 Her, as yet, unbroken powers of encountering adversity.
1817 Lady Morgan France (1818) I. ii. 261 Courage unsubdued, spirits unbroken, indignation unrestrained.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xviii. 219 The journey was an arduous one to be undertaken, even by unbroken men.
1907 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2 reissued) II. 239 Her..cheerful spirits, unbroken by poverty and dependence.
4. Of horses, etc.: Not tamed or rendered tractable; untrained.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective]
unbroken1538
unsubjectlike1590
unsubmissivea1653
insubmissive1841
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [adjective] > not broken in or trained
uncorsayeda1400
undaunted1422
unbroken1538
rough1542
unhandled1558
unbacked1593
unmade1632
unbrokea1716
breachy1780
outlawed1893
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Indomitus, wylde, vnbroken.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 230 To ride the vnbroken horse Bucephalus.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 57 We are the vnbroken-Colt..which hee [sc. Our Lord] commaunded (with the Asse) to be brought vnto hym.
1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 30 A Colt unbroken on which never Man had sat.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 36 Driving an unbroken horse.
1864 Boyd Ess., Commonpl. Philos. vii. 203 No man likes to think that he is being managed as Mr. Rarey might manage an unbroken colt.
1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 252 Traders carrying unbroken horses through the tropics.
5.
a. Not interrupted or disturbed; continuous, uniform.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [adjective]
continualc1340
jointc1400
directa1513
unbroken1561
successive1586
continuate1601
uninterrupted1602
unintermitted1611
continued1628
concrete1651
constant1653
uninterrupted1657
unintermitting1661
solid1662
continuous1751
uninterrupt1776
unbroke1793
unintermittent1850
unbreathing1893
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 5v There ought to haue ben one continual vnbroken course of obedience in their whole lyfe.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 23 Sick amitie and freindscheip..that all men supponit the samyn for to indure for ever and euer onbrokin.
1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature iii. 60 Truth is the offspring of silence, unbroken meditations, and thoughts often revised and corrected.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. vii. 260 An unbroken Genealogy of Mankind for many Ages.
1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. (1842) II. 11 It required an unbroken attention,..to form a true judgment.
1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. 2 An unbroken range of forest covers each bank of the river.
1852 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1882) 3rd Ser. xii. 151 One unbroken series of cruelty and crime.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid i, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 94 While yet silent he stands in a long and unbroken gaze.
b. Const. by.
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1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. xiii. 73 Whom Love with mutual Bonds unites, Unbroken by complaints or strife.
1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. i. 137 Miss Dennel grew..weary with the length of the way, unbroken by any company.
1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming i. x Many a halcyon day he lived to see Unbroken but by one misfortune dire.
1882 H. de Windt On Equator 66 The landscape being unbroken by hill or habitation of any kind.
6. Of ground: Not broken by ploughing or digging. Also with up.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > broken > dug > not
unwenda1200
ungrubbedc1374
unfurrowed1566
unbroken1579
undigged1580
undelved1602
untrenched1849
unturned1904
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 26 They dyd take of the ploughe share, and drawe the ploughe, with leauing a certain space of earthe vnbroken vp.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 245 An unbroken and untilled ground doth now and then bring forth goodly hearbs.
1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. II. ix. 206 The ground is for the most part unbroken up.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 51 E're we stir the yet unbroken Ground. View more context for this quotation
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xiv. 36 You complain, that with unceasing Toil, You break, alas! the long unbroken Soil.
1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 142 If you are making a new garden on unbroken ground.
7. Not broken in ranks; not thrown into disorder.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > [adjective] > qualities
mainc1450
weak1488
unserviceablea1599
new-raised?1609
unrecruited1649
regulated1650
strongish1652
steady1670
mastering1711
undisciplined1718
unbroken1720
reduced1817
sticky1898
mechanicalized1901
u/s1942
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 136 The Imperialists, eager in the Pursuit, left him unbroken.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxx. 153 He..withdrew from the field of battle, with the greatest part of his cavalry entire and unbroken.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 93 The obscurity enabled Sarsfield, with a few squadrons which still remained unbroken, to cover the retreat.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 24 Sept. 2/1 As cavalry are not ordinarily required to charge large masses of unbroken infantry.
8. Botany. Not variegated. (Cf. break v. 32c.)
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the world > plants > appearance of plant > plant defined by colour or marking > [adjective] > having particular type marking or colouring
streaked1600
marbled1629
muscadine1646
agated1665
silver-cupped1688
red-top1705
tessellated1723
lineate1777
fancy1793
red-tipped1800
areolated1802
white-lipped1813
variegated1818
pennaceous1819
streak-flowered1822
limbate1826
unbroken1829
sanguine-heart1840
rivulose1843
pencilled1846
areolate1847
notate1857
sigillate1858
discolor1859
discolorous1860
fumose1866
fumous1866
tricolour1866
unnetted1869
1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants 267 Instead of saving the seed to be sown from the finest variegated tulips, they prefer unbroken flowers or breeders.
Derivatives
unˈbrokenly adv.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [adverb]
togetherc1290
bedenea1300
continuallyc1305
an-end?1440
contunely1447
successively1531
jointlyc1540
continuedly1559
unend1559
durably?1567
outright1579
continuately1601
uninterruptedly1665
constantly1682
unintermittedly1693
unbrokenly1850
unintermittently1875
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adverb] > without a break
unbrokenly1850
1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal xii. 232 The years unbrokenly march on.
1866 H. P. Liddon Bampton Lect. (1875) vi. 322 Like a ray of light from the parent fire with which it is unbrokenly joined.
unˈbrokenness n.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > wholeness or unity of being
onenesseOE
undepartingc1400
indivulsiona1638
unseparateness1668
altogether1674
altogetherness1674
unbrokenness1849
undividedness1889
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > unison
unisound1599
unison1603
unisonance1653
homophony1776
unbrokenness1849
homophone1879
1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers I. iii. 246 The unbroken wholeness of this Altar-stone was a symbol of the unbrokenness of the Church.
1889 E. W. Benson Diary 30 Sept. in A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson (1899) II. 284 The whole crowded congregation sing in most perfect unbrokenness.
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