[UN-1 8.] Not bowed or bent. Freq. fig.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., IV. met. vii. (1868), 148. Þe laste of his labours was þat he sustenede þe heuene vpon his nekke vnbowed.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., III. i. 16. He … passeth by with stiffe vnbowed Knee. Ibid. (1610), Temp., I. ii. 116. Confederates … To give him Annuall tribute … and bend The Dukedom yet vnbow’d … To most ignoble stooping.
1648. Hexham, II. Ongekromt, Vncrooked, or Vnbowed.
1816. Byron, Ch. Har., III. xxxix. He stood unbow’d beneath the ills upon him piled.
1865. W. G. Palgrave, Arabia, I. 205. His tall stature, absolutely unbowed by years.
1879. M. Pattison, Milton, 131. In Andrew Marvel Milton found one congenial spirit, incorruptible amid poverty, unbowed by defeat.
