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unˈwanted, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.) Also absol. as n.
1697Congreve Mourn. Bride iii. viii, [A] return so unwish'd, unwanted too, it seems. 1731A. Hill Advice to Virgins 10 Yet modest excellence will oft descend To thank unwanted caution in a friend. 1808Mitford Hist. Greece IV. 476 Yet exhortation..seems not to have been unwanted. 1864‘Annie Thomas’ D. Donne I. vii. 167 Finding some one located at Donne Place who would prevent his occupying the distressing position of third and unwanted one. 1886Manning in Contemp. Rev. May 693 The duty society owes to the lives of unwanted children. 1932New Statesman 10 Sept. 284/2 We don't take no notice although she did 'ave a little Unwanted. 1949Here & Now (N.Z.) Oct. 18/1 The new freedom has to be weighed against the risk of rearing a generation of unwanteds, filled with..hostility. 1976Daily Record (Glasgow) 4 Dec. 31/5 The problem is not peculiar to Saints... Bigger teams heave out unwanteds, their feet not touching the ground.
Add: Hence unˈwantedness n., the fact or quality of being or feeling unwanted.
1955Louisiana Reports CCXXVII. 966 That unwantedness that would most surely bring the keenest and most insufferable unhappiness. 1980in Human Life Rev. VI. 38 Unwantedness itself is a factor deranging the management of pregnancy. |