undivorced en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + divorced.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not divorced.
[S]he was not yet Mrs. Vance Weston, but Halo Tarrant, the still undivorced wife of Lewis Tarrant.
1932, Edith Wharton, The Gods Arrive, New York; London: D. Appleton and Company, page 3:[A]n adulterous Wife undivorced is ſtill called ſuch an one's Wife, though ſhe be an Adultereſs.
1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Third Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph XXXII, page 382: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.
1859, The Civil Code of the Hawaiian Islands, Passed in the Year of Our Lord, 1859: