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▪ I. unˈbowed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not bowed or bent. Freq. fig.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. met. vii. (1868) 148 Þe laste of his labours was þat he sustenede þe heuene vpon his nekke vnbowed. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. i. 16 He..passeth by with stiffe vnbowed Knee. 1610― Temp. i. ii. 116 Confederates..To giue him Annuall tribute..and bend The Dukedom yet vnbow'd..To most ignoble stooping. 1648Hexham ii, Ongekromt, Vncrooked, or Vnbowed. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. xxxix, He stood unbow'd beneath the ills upon him piled. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia I. 205 His tall stature, absolutely unbowed by years. 1879M. Pattison Milton 131 In Andrew Marvel Milton found one congenial spirit, incorruptible amid poverty, unbowed by defeat.
▪ II. unˈbowed, a.
[un-1 + bow n.1]
Of pigs: Not furnished with a bow-shaped piece of wood to impede their movements.
1624in H. Maclean Watermillock Reg. (1908) 157 That none..shall keep their swine unbowed..sub poena for every swine so unbowed iiij d. 1794W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumbld. I. 163 note, The tenants are subject to pains..for swine going unbowed in the time of harvest. |