ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1453. Rolls of Parlt., V. 231/2. The said … Archers shall be … kept hole, undepartid, undevided and unsevered.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IX. viii. 133. Sa lang as thai sammyn vnsyverit war.
1607. Shaks., Cor., III. ii. 42. I haue heard you say, Honor and Policy, like vnseuer’d Friends, I’th’ Warre do grow together.
1657. H. King, Departure, 28. ’Tis only the Triumphant Church where we Shall in unsever’d neighbourhood agree.
1712. Blackmore, Creation, I. 645. The unsever’d parts the greatest pressure bear.
a. 1800. Cowper, Odyss. (ed. 2), XIV. 530. He … honouring Ulysses most, On Him the long unsever’d chine bestow’d.
1849. M. Arnold, Strayed Reveller, Sonnet, 5. One lesson … Of Toil unsever’d from Tranquillity.
1885. Manch. Exam., 2 Feb., 6/2. How long this tie would remain unsevered … is open to doubt.
Hence Unseveredly adv. rare–1.
1661. Boyle, Style of Script., 209. The … Scripture was so Unsever’dly his Study.
