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unˈwedded, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Of persons: Not wedded; unmarried. Also absol.
a1230Hali Meid. 13 (Titus MS.), Þa ilke sari wrecches, þat i þat ilke fule wurðinge, unweddede, walewio. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 7352 Þe fyrst [manner of lechery] ys fornycacyoun, Whan two vnweddyd haue mysdon. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 111 Al manere men wedded & vnwedded. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 8699 Haue ye noo drede That my ladie vnwedded is? 1484Caxton Fables of æsop vi. xvi, To them [sc. the aged] is better to be vnwedded than to be euer in trouble with an euyl wyf. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades 231/2 If a woman play the harlotte with an vnwedded man. c1590Marlowe Faustus i, So shall the subiects of euery element Be alwaies seruiceable to vs three;..Sometimes like women, or vnwedded maides. 1718Rowe tr. Lucan ix. 1134 Unwedded Pallas lent a Sister's aid [to Perseus]. 1791Cowper Odyssey xi. 44 Brides, youths unwedded, seniors.., And girls. 1825Scott Betrothed xix, A richly-dowered maiden, unwedded, and unlikely to wed. 1877E. R. Conder Basis Faith v. 225 A large proportion of the..most vigorous in body and mind die unwedded or childless.
transf.c1792Cowper Death of Damon 89 My rambling vines, unwedded to the trees, Bear shrivell'd grapes. 1811Lamb Elia i. Bachelor's Complaint, Cerasia..sent away a dish of Morellas..to her husband,..and recommended a plate of less extraordinary gooseberries to my unwedded palate. 1837Lytton Athens I. 377 Pisistratus conducted himself towards the fair Cæsyra with a chastity..unwelcome to her affection... The unwedded wife communicated the mortifying secret to her mother.
2. Free from, unattended by, marriage.
1804Europ. Mag. XLV. 192/2 'Twixt wedded and un⁓wedded loving Great is the difference, they say. 1822Milman Martyr of Antioch 101 The saintly quiet of the unwedded state. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 114 Expressions which..convey no such exaltation of the unwedded life.
Hence unˈweddedness.
1830Carlyle Misc. (1840) II. 368 It is not always our duty to marry; but it is always our duty to abide by right;..not to avoid unweddedness by untruthfulness. |