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unˈblessed, unˈblest, ppl. a.
Forms: (see bless v.).
[un-1 8.]
1. Not formally blessed or consecrated.
c1310in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 231 Þer ich finde a wiif þat liȝter is of barn,..Ȝif it be vnblisced, y croke it fot or arm. 1340Ayenb. 41 Huanne me stelþ..be kueade skele out of holy stede yblissede þinges oþer onblissede, huet þet hit by. c1530More Answ. Frith Wks. 842/2 Whether the blessed sacrament be consecrate or vnconsecrate,..[he] biddeth care not but take it for all that vnblessed as it is. 1546Wyclif's Wycket A viij, Ye gyve vs after the breade wyne and water, and sometymes clene water vnblessed rather coniured.
b. Deprived of, excluded from, left without, a blessing or benediction.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. ix. 54 He chose an halter from among the rest, And with it hung himselfe, vnbid vnblest. 1633Bp. Hall Contempl., N.T. iv. xii, ‘Ungirt, unblessed,’ was the old word; as not ready till they were girded. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 637 He breath'd his last, exposed to open air, And there his corps, unbless'd, is hanging still. 1757Gray Bard 102 Stay, oh stay! nor thus forlorn Leave me unbless'd, unpitied, here to mourn. 1783Crabbe Village i. 346 The crowd retire distress'd, To think a poor man's bones should lie unbless'd. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. lxviii, Pass not unblest the Genius of the place! 1847H. Bushnell Chr. Nurt. ii. ii, This always unblessed, tedious look of sanctimony.
2. Not blessed in fortune or lot; unfortunate, wretched, miserable.
1340–70Alex. & Dind. 1124 Ȝe ben vn-blessed of lif, for..Þat ȝe holden so her holsome dedes Gret wante is of wo & wikkede paine. c1375Cursor M. 13108 (Fairf.), Þat man salle vn-blessed be þe quilk trawes noȝt in me. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 5883 That day the Troyens were glad... But Ector was that day vnblessed, Off grace certes that day he myssed. c1450Myrr. our Ladye 220 O moste blyssed of women, socoure vs vnblyssed synners. 1592Warner Alb. Eng. vii. xxxvii. 166 What might remaine but death for me that liued so vnblest? 1604Shakes. Oth. v. i. 34 Minion, your deere lyes dead, And your vnblest Fate highes. 1649Milton Eikon. ix. 79 That unblest expedition to the Jle of Rhee. 1675Hobbes Odyssey (1677) 25 Unblest Ulysses, who at Ilium Together with you fought. a1721Prior Fortune-Teller 27 What matters, if unblest in love, How long or short my life will prove? 1798Monthly Mag. IV. 48 Unchang'd, eternal be your misery. I rule you, and am only more unblest. 1848Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 169 Which is more unblest Whose love is shunned or sought let time attest! 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. i, Gaslights flared in the shops with a haggard and unblest air.
absol.1814Wordsw. Excurs. ii. 596 That poor Man taken hence to-day..must be deemed, I fear, Of the unblest.
3. Unhallowed, unholy; wicked, evil, malignant.
1388Wyclif Ecclus. xxvii. 24 To schewe opynli the pryuytees of a frend, is dispeir of a soule vnblessid. 1426Audelay Poems (Percy Soc.) 15 We were put in paradise to have wele withoutyn woo Hent we had unblest brokyn the commaundmentis of our Kyng. c1450Mirk's Festial 219 Then sayde Laurens: ‘Vnblessyd, þes tormentys I haue ȝore desyred’. c1520Skelton Magnyf. 134 If Lyberte sholde lepe and renne where he lyst, It were no vertue, it were a thynge vnblyst. 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 915 For none but such as this bold Ape vnblest Can euer thriue in that vnluckie quest. 1610Bp. Carleton Jurisd. 71 This vnblessed deuise of forgerie, being attempted in a number of decretall Epistles. 1667Milton P.L. i. 238 Such resting found the sole Of unblest feet. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 229 Oats unblest, and Darnel domineers, And shoots its head above the shining Ears. 1761Gray Odin 35 Who is he, with voice unblest, That calls me from the bed of rest? 1793Holcroft Lavater's Physiog. i. 11 Wilt thou teach man the unblessed art of judging his brother by the ambiguous expressions of his countenance? 1800Coleridge Christabel ii. 529, I had vowed with music loud To clear yon wood from thing unblest. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. v. v, Why were not [they]..in their beds, that unblessed Varennes Night! 1840― Heroes v. 304 The world..can either have it as blessed continuous summer-sunshine, or as unblessed black thunder and tornado.
4. Not favoured or made happy by or with something.
1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes i. xx. 15 My meagre Cup's unblest With the rich Formian, or Falernian Vine. 1795Campbell Elegy 13 The cloudy heavens unblest by summer's smile. 1844H. G. Robinson Odes of Horace i. xxxi, Nor let me an old age prolong, Unhonour'd or unblest by song. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. II. 269 Lyons was plunged into a silence, unblessed with repose.
Hence unˈblessedness.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Rev. xix. 32 An euer⁓lasting supper of al bitternes & vnblessednes wherof they maye eate and be partakers altogether. 1836T. Hook G. Gurney I. 141 Without having changed her state of single-unblessedness. 1881Bruce Chief End Rev. vi. 302 The grace of God is represented as finding men in a state of serious moral corruption and consequent unblessedness. |