unsurrenderedadj.
(un- prefix1 2.)
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the mind > possession > retaining > [adjective] > retained > not relinquished
unyolden1575
unyielded1640
unrelinquished1762
unsurrendereda1800
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Unsurrendered, not surrendered.]
a1800 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad (ed. 2) vii. 376 Helen is mine, an unsurrender'd prize For ever.
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 123 None of this reasoning is now applicable to a devise of unsurrendered copyholds.
1848 J. Martineau in Life (1902) I. 185 Military parties were told off to..search every house for the unsurrendered arms.
a1850 J. C. Calhoun Wks. (1863) I. 147 It must..remain unsurrendered and unimpaired in the people of the several States.
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