Undiverted

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not turned aside.

1665.  Boyle, Occas. Refl., IV. ix. 57. Though these Grounds have not any patent Passages, whereby to derive Water and Fatness from the River, and therefore must suffer the greatest part of it to run by them undiverted.

a. 1711.  Ken, Psyche, Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 205. I was ambitious of that Height, To gain of Heav’n an undiverted Sight.

1794.  Mathias, Purs. Lit. (1798), 313. By a patient continuance and undiverted attention to academical studies.

1859.  Miss Mulock, Dom. Stories (1862), 124. Her mind, undiverted from the past by any charms of the present, became dead to all outward impressions.

1859.  I. Taylor, Logic in Theol., 308. Such persons find it difficult to read their Bible in undiverted remembrance of what it is.

  2.  Not entertained or amused.

1792.  G. Wakefield, Mem., 8. The reader, however, may not be undiverted with its unaffected simplicity and pathos.