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English
Etymology
From un- + divorced.
Adjective
undivorced (not comparable)
- 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: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
undivorced
- simple past and past participle of undivorce