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unreaved

unreaved adjective: not torn, split, or parted.

Adjective

unreaved (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Not torn, split, or parted.
    • Couldst thou think that a cottage not too strongly built, and standing so bleak in the very mouth of the winds, could for any long time hold tight and unreaved?1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC

Origin of unreaved

See un- (“not”), and compare rive.

Questions about unreaved

What does unreaved mean?
Unreaved means not torn, split, or parted.
What part of speech is unreaved?
Unreaved is an adjective.

Words near unreaved in the dictionary

  1. unreassurable
  2. unreassured
  3. unreassuring
  4. unreassuringly
  5. unreave
  6. unreaved
  7. unreaves
  8. unreaving
  9. unrebated
  10. unrebelling
  11. unrebellion

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