unreaved en · ADJ
Etymology
See un- (“not”), and compare rive.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Not torn, split, or parted.
Couldst thou think that a cottage not too strongly built, and standing so bleak in the very mouth of the winds, could for any long time hold tight and unreaved?
1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC: