unrivenadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈrɪvn/, U.S. /ˌənˈrɪv(ə)n/ Not riven, torn, or rent; undivided, intact.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > whole or intact > untorn
unraced?c1400
unrent?1440
unrivena1450
untorn1563
rentless1629
unrended1646
a1450 (a1400) Siege Jerusalem (BL Add.) (1932) l. 606 Vnrevyn [corresponding to Ronnen ouer in: a1400 Laud Ȝit wer þe Romayns as rest, as þey fram Rome come, Ronnen ouer eche a renk, & noȝt a ryng brosten].
1583 Edinb. Test. XIII. f. 108, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Unrevin Thrie stane..of vnrevin weikis at vj s. viij d. the stane.
1792 ‘A. Pasquin’ Children of Thespis (rev. ed.) 85 She's a sort of stage rose-bud, unsmote and unriven.
1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh iii. 219 The last sole stubborn fragment, left unriv'n, Of the proud host that late stood fronting Heav'n.
1845 H. B. Hirst Coming of Mammoth 25 Mocking, as he rushed on unriven, The innocuous bolts of mighty heaven.
1901 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 230 The ninety and nine just persons whose knickerbockers are still unriven.
1992 Victorian Stud. 35 286 A return to the days of the early Law, when jungle society was unriven by interspecies fear.
1997 South Central Rev. 14 58 This totalitarian body serves as the incarnation of the unriven whole, the sublime body that will survive all deaths.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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