ppl. a. [UN-1 8 b and 8 c.]
1. Not shaken or agitated.
c. 1460. [see UN-1 5 c].
1602. Shaks., Ham., III. ii. 201. Which now like Fruite vnripe stickes on the Tree, But fall vnshaken, when they mellow bee.
1712. Blackmore, Creation, I. 343. These strong, unshaken mounds, resist the shocks Of tides.
1762. Falconer, Shipwr., II. 314. [The canvas] lies at length unshaken by the wind.
1798. W. L. Bowles, Poems, St. Michael’s Mt., 75. Firm as stands the rock’s unshaken base.
2. Not moved from a firm position or state; unweakened; steadfast, steady.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. John, i. 12. Able to stand stable and vnshaken against al temptacions of the deiuill.
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., III. ii. 199. My Duty … Should the approach of this wilde Riuer breake, And stand unshaken yours.
1659. W. Chamberlayne, Pharon., I. iii. 384. With such unshaken confidence as we Pray on the expanded wings of faith.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 75, ¶ 7. A firm and unshaken Expectation of another Life.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 361. He will never get an unshaken seat in the saddle, who never rides an unruly horse.
1823. Scott, Quentin. D., xxii. The Bishop cast a melancholy but unshaken look upon the grisly satellite.
1848. Mrs. Jameson, Sacr. & Leg. Art, II. 188. Her unshaken constancy.
1883. A. Roberts, O. T. Revis., ii. 29. The tradition … remains unshaken.
3. Not shivered or cracked. rare.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 42. Now sawe out thy timber … to haue it vnshaken, and ready to sale.
1828. Craven Gloss. Unshacken, not cracked.
4. Not shaken out; unscattered.
1765. Museum Rust., IV. 134. I found a considerable quantity of the nameless grass, the seed unshaken.
Hence Unshakenly adv.
1882. Miss C. F. Woolson, Anne, 384. Feeling drearily, unshakenly sure.
