Unwed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8 b.] = next. In quot. 1562 perhaps f. UN-² 8.

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1513. Douglas, Æneid, VI. v. 27. Small childrin, and young damicellis vnwed.

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1562. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 191. We wold wed the sooner…, showyng plaine, That I should the sooner be vnwed againe.

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1590. Shaks., Com. Err., II. i. 26. This seruitude makes you to keepe vnwed.

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1790. Mrs. Wheeler, Westmoreland Dial. (1821), 47. Be a gud lass,… en keep the sel unwed en tae can.

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1816. Byron, Ch. Har., III. lv. Though unwed, That love was pure.

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1835. Milman, Nala & Damayanti, etc., 91. Unwed wert thou in virgin bloom.

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1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, xi. 353. Timas, whom unwed Persephone locked in her darksome bed.

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