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unˈwed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
= next.
In quot. 1562 perhaps f. un-2 8.
1513Douglas æneid vi. v. 27 Small childrin, and ȝoung damicellis vnwed. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 191, We wold wed the sooner.., showyng plaine, That I should the sooner be vnwed againe. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. ii. i. 26 This seruitude makes you to keepe vnwed. 1790Mrs. Wheeler Westmoreland Dial. (1821) 47 Be a gud lass,..en keep the sel unwed en tae can. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. lv, Though unwed, That love was pure. 1835Milman Nala & Damayanti, etc. 91 Unwed wert thou in virgin bloom. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets xi. 353 Timas, whom unwed Persephone locked in her darksome bed. 1967E. S. Gardner Case of Queenly Contestant (1973) viii. 103, I would keep on working as long as I was able. Then I would go to a home for unwed mothers and have my child. 1981R. McClure Coram's Children x. 124 In 1764 forty-nine children were reclaimed by their parents, often unwed mothers. |