untruced

English

Etymology

un- +‎ truce +‎ -ed

Adjective

untruced (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Without a truce.
    • 1611, Thomas Middleton, No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's:
      This the effect: that whereas all those four / Maintain a natural opposition / And untruced war, the one against the other, / To shame their ancient envies they should see / How well in two breasts all these do agree.
    • 1836, Pharcellus Church, The Philosophy of Benevolence:
      […] how dare we indulge this sectarian arrogance, this secret heart-burning, these vile attacks upon each other's honest peculiarities, this struggle for pre-eminence, and this untruced war among ourselves […]

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