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unˈgiven, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. ON. and Icel. ú-, ógefinn (MSw. ogivin), MDu. ongegeven, MHG. ungegeben.]
†1. Not given in marriage. Obs.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 6545 Gentil damysels vngyuen, Þat able to mennes companye were þryuen.
2. Not given or bestowed as a gift; not imparted.
1511Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 253 To hald in un⁓gewin the Kingis goune..quhilk the King ordanit to be gewin. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 230 b, Fortune leaft nothyng vngeuen to hym. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. viii, Philanax himselfe could haue wished the blow vngiuen, when he saw him fal. 1600Sir R. Cecil Lett. (Camden) 62, I beleeve that office wilbe for a while vngeuen. 1662H. Hibbert Body Divinity i. 172 Sometimes men take offence ungiven. 1713S. Centlivre Wonder ii. i, What proof remains ungiven of his love? 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 63 Neither let him harbour such an overweening conceit of his own ungiven strength. 1818Colebrooke Obligations 48 By the Hindu law, whatever has been given by mistake, must be considered as ungiven.
3. a. Not given over; unsurrendered.
a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1850) I. 272 It [sc. the castle] wes not long on-givin over.
b. Unaddicted to something.
1876Whitby Gloss. 206. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 2 Mar. 2/1 Silent of speech, morose of nature, not ungiven to beer. |