undivorced

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ divorced

Adjective[edit]

undivorced (not comparable)

  1. Not divorced.
    • 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Fourth Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. [], 2nd edition, London: [] Joseph Downing [], published 1713, →OCLC, paragraph XXXII, page 382:
      [A]n adulterous Wife undivorced is ſtill called ſuch an one's Wife, though ſhe be an Adultereſs.
    • 1859, The Civil Code of the Hawaiian Islands, Passed in the Year of Our Lord, 1859[1]:
      SECTION 1256. It shall not be lawful to enter of record any release of dower in lands or other property, signed by an undivorced wife, without her previous acknowledgment [] that she had signed such release without compulsion, fear or constraint from her husband.
    • 1932, Edith Wharton, The Gods Arrive, New York, London: D. Appleton and Company, page 3:
      [S]he was not yet Mrs. Vance Weston, but Halo Tarrant, the still undivorced wife of Lewis Tarrant.

Verb[edit]

undivorced

  1. simple past and past participle of undivorce