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单词 untorn
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untornadj.

Etymology: un- prefix1 2b.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈtorn.
1. Not torn or lacerated.
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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.
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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).
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