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unrent

American  
[uhn-rent] / ʌnˈrɛnt /

adjective

  1. not rent; not torn, disturbed, pained, or the like.

    unrent garments; unrent silence; unrent feelings.


Etymology

Origin of unrent

First recorded in 1590–1600; un- 1 + rent 2

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And now, with canvas unrent, and masts unsprung, returned to the very buoy she left.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

As yet they had been shielded by the forest which lay over the land like an unrent mantle.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Roosevelt, Theodore

Daily had some loop fallen, which might have gone ravelling far enough; but daily was he there to pick it up again, and keep the web unrent and solidly progressive.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas

Thus ever may that flag unrent At peak and staff be borne, Nor e'er from mast or battlement By traitor hands be torn.

From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Colles, Julia Keese

But so swelled the heart within him as he cast the speech abroad, That the golden wall of the battle, the fence unrent by the sword.

From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by Morris, William

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