Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole: as, undivided attention.
- Not made separate and limited to a particular sum: as, to own an undivided share of a business.
- In botany, not lobed, cleft, or branched.
- In entomology, composed of a single piece: as, an undivided pygidium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; continuous.
- adjective Not set off, as a share in a firm; not made actually separate by division.
- adjective Not directed or given to more than one object.
- adjective (Bot.) Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire.
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- adjective
unified , whole
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not shared by or among others
- adjective not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective
- adjective not parted by conflict of opinion
- adjective not separated into parts or shares; constituting an undivided unit
Etymologies
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Examples
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In June, Mr. Obama insisted on his first day as the presumptive Democratic nominee that Jerusalem should remain undivided as the capital of the Jewish nation.
McCain Touts His Support of Israel - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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In June, Mr. Obama insisted on his first day as the presumptive Democratic nominee that Jerusalem should remain undivided as the capital of the Jewish nation.
McCain Touts His Support of Israel - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Netanyahu welcomed the crowd of 1000 American evangelicals to Jerusalem, a city he described as the undivided, eternal capitol of the Jewish people.
Max Blumenthal: Netanyahu Appears At Major Rally with Far-Right Pastor Hagee on Eve of Biden's Israel Arrival Max Blumenthal 2010
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Give each telephone call your undivided attention, and don't brook any electronic interruptions.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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Give each telephone call your undivided attention, and don't brook any electronic interruptions.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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The Obama campaign is getting all confusing about whether or not Jerusalem should remain undivided.
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Jones, who when a young man had spent a good many years in a frontier town, was too accustomed to this method of punctuating one's remarks and calling the undivided attention of one's listener to them, to be much surprised.
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-- Permit me, therefore, to call your undivided attention to the great objection, the great temptation of the day.
National Rectitude the Only True Basis of National Prosperity: An Appeal to the Confederate States Joseph Clay 1863
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I was probably 10 or 11 at the time, and I flomped down on the couch one evening when a cup of tea, erstwhile sitting pleasantly on the armrest, leapt from its resting place in the ensuing compression wave and came to rest on my arm and stomach getting what I can only describe as my undivided attention.
meandering wildly 2009
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Barack Obama described Israel as "undivided" when speaking to a Jewish group but recanted the next day.
Archive 2008-06-01 Not a sheep 2008
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