Meanings
adjectiveunreaved (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteNot torn, split, or parted.
Couldst thou think that a cottage not too strongly built, and standing so bleak in the very mouth of the winds, could for any long time hold tight and unreaved?
1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC
Origin
See un- (“not”), and compare rive.
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unreaved. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreaved
MLA
“unreaved.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreaved. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unreaved,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreaved.
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