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  • adjective Not ivied; without ivy growing on it.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ ivied

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Examples

  • On the most weatherward gable the iron in the stone had shed a dark red stain under the lash of many winter storms, and some tough lichens had incrusted patches of the surface; but, for the rest, the walls rose in the univied nakedness of all ruins in our climate, which has no clinging evergreens wherewith to pity and soften the forlornness of decay.

    A Chance Acquaintance William Dean Howells 1878

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