unreave
English
Etymology
See unreeve.
Verb
unreave (third-person singular simple present unreaves, present participle unreaving, simple past and past participle unreaved)
- (obsolete, transitive) To unwind; to disentangle; to loose.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti in Amoretti and Epithalamion, London: William Ponsonby, Sonnet 23,
- Penelope for her Vlisses sake,
- Deuiz’d a Web her wooers to deceaue:
- in which the worke that she all day did make
- the same at night she did againe vnreaue,
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti in Amoretti and Epithalamion, London: William Ponsonby, Sonnet 23,
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unreave in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)