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- adjective not
cloven
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Examples
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'uncloven' air right in the breast; there can be no suggestion that it is easier for the last than for the first bird to cut a way.
Norse Tales and Sketches Alexander Lange Kielland 1877
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I will eat Literally Anything, regardless of cleanliness, cloven or uncloven of hoof, feathered or batwinged or scaled, up to and including The Great God Pan and/or Jormungandr no gods, no masters, no dietary laws
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The Factotum gladly gave him food, and afterward shewed him divers knotty logs of wood, which the weake strength of Lurco had left uncloven; but this fellow being more active and lusty, quickly rent them all to pieces.
The Decameron 2004
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Swine are either cloven-footed or uncloven-footed; for there are in Illyria and in
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Instead of neat uncloven hooves, the stallion's feet were each divided into two toes, a little like a cow's.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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By performing it on the ninth day one acquires many animals of uncloven hoofs.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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And the Chamar himself will not touch the corpse of a horse, a dog or any animal whose feet are uncloven; and he will not kill a cow though he eats its flesh.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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These wretched beings break the eternal commandments of their Maker without scruple; but they will not partake of the beast of the uncloven foot, and the fish which has no scales.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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These wretched beings break the eternal commandments of their Maker without scruple; but they will not partake of the beast of the uncloven foot, and the fish which has no scales.
The Bible in Spain 1712
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Could we ask them to develop a pig with an uncloven hoof?
Slashdot: Science 2009
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