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unˈfriended, a.
[un-1 9.]
Not provided with friends; friendless.
1513More Rich. III (1883) 55 In how much she is now in the more beggerly condicion, vnfrended and worne out of acquaintance. 1554R. Ascham in Whitaker Richmondshire (1823) I. 275 That [time] when I, unfreinded and unknowne, came first to your lordshipp. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iii. 10 A stranger, Vnguided, and vnfriended. 1656Jeanes Mixt. Schol. Div. 5 And how should they, who were but..poor unfriended persons, escape..so potent..a malice. 1735Pope Let. Wks. 1751 IX. 195 He will be a friend and benefactor..to your un-friended, un-benefited Nation. 1772Test Filial Duty II. 2 [I] cannot think that I am unfriended, unheeded. 1842Rogers Burke's Wks. Introd. I. 10 Barry (afterwards the well known painter, then an unfriended son of genius). 1875Howells Foregone Concl. 209 A man more than ordinarily orphaned and unfriended.
absol.1804W. L. Bowles Spir. Discov. iii. 120 Who stood a guardian angel in distress To the unfriended.
b. Const. of.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. Prose Addit. 159 Fly Trayterous æneas, fly vnfolowed and vnfriended of Elisa. 1725Pope Odyssey iv. 631 Still on this desert Isle my fleet is moor'd; Unfriended of the gales. 1868Lanier Jacquerie v. 18 That blade flew up..And left Lord Raoul unfriended of his weapon.
Hence unˈfriendedness.
1821Tales Landlord, Fair Witch of Glas Llyn III. 325 This sublime unfriendedness. |