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† undeˈpartable, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
Inseparable; indivisible.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. iii. (1868) 120 No wise man ne may doute of þe vndepartable peyne of shrewes. 1382Wyclif Luke 1st Prol., Bi the entringe of the generacioun of vndepartable God. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xxvii. 97 Ioyne me to þe wiþ an undepartable bonde of loue. 1483Cath. Angl. 96 Vn Departiabylle, indiuisibilis, indiuiduus.
Hence undeˈpartableness; undeˈpartably adv.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. iii. 15 Tweyne pointis of matrimonie, which ben vndepartabilnes and fleischli vce of bodies into childe bigeting. c1456― Bk. of Faith (1909) 245 Oon man to have bi the lawe oon wyf undepartabili. a1470H. Parker Dives & Pauper (W. de W. 1496) vi. viii. 244/2 There wolde no man knytte hym undepartably to ony woman. |