c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., IV. pr. iii. (1868), 120. No wise man ne may doute of þe vndepartable peyne of shrewes.
1382. Wyclif, Luke, 1st Prol. Bi the entringe of the generacioun of vndepartable God.
c. 1450. trans. De Imitatione, III. xxvii. 97. Ioyne me to þe wiþ an undepartable Londe of loue.
1483. Cath. Angl., 96. Vn Departiabylle, indiuisibilis, indiuiduus.
Hence Undepartableness; Undepartably adv.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., I. iii. 15. Tweyne pointis of matrimonie, which ben vndepartabilnes and fleischli vce of bodies into childe bigeting. Ibid. (c. 1456), Bk. of Faith (1909), 245. Oon man to have bi the lawe oon wyf undepartabili.
a. 1470. H. Parker, Dives & Pauper (W. de W., 1496), VI. viii. 244/2. There wolde no man knytte hym undepartably to ony woman.
