单词 | untorn |
释义 | untornadj. 1. Not torn or lacerated. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > whole or intact > untorn unraced?c1400 unrent?1440 unrivena1450 untorn1563 rentless1629 unrended1646 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 751/2 We shoulde not..mangle them or cut them, but..suffer them to stande vntorne. 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 18 They..Leaue yet no leaues vntorne that may be seene. 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis i. 4 The yet-free Earth..(Vntorne with ploughs). 1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 513 Preserving them un-torn in the Lyons Den. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxiv. 26 Apollo, with compassion touch'd Ev'n of the lifeless Hector,..preserved him, although dragg'd, untorn. 1855 R. Browning Saul v Our sheep..are white and untorn by the bushes. 1890 Retrospect Med. 102 249 The..tissue is usually torn through in front,..but remains untorn behind. 2. Not taken away by force. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > [adjective] > retained > not taken away unbereft1621 untorna1716 unfilched1819 a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 443 As long as that small remainder of Land, belonging to the Church, shall continue yet untorn from her. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1563 |
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