uncleft

English

Etymology

un- +‎ cleft

Adjective

uncleft (not comparable)

1. Not cleft.

Noun

uncleft (plural unclefts)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (puristic, nonstandard) atom
   • 1989, Poul Anderson, “Uncleftish Beholdings”, in Analogue:

     The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts [, which was thought to be] a hard thing that could be split no further.

   • 2011, Julian Montinaro, On the Fromth of the Lifekin, Lulu.com:

     [H]uge breaklings fall down [and] have to be worn away, uncleft by uncleft until lowered in size they can be rolled about by the waves[.]