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unˈcared-for, a.
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Not cared for or looked after; untended, neglected.
pred.1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. i. §4 Their Kings..left their owne and their peoples ghostly condition vncared for. 1775Ash, Uncared.., not regarded;..‘It was uncared for’. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxi, Circumstances which, in families of rank, are left uncared for, because it is supposed impossible they can be neglected. 1850Tennyson In Mem. ci, The brook shall.., Uncared for, gird the windy grove. 1894Persian Pict. 40 Somewhat desolate and uncared for in appearance.
attrib.1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. ii. (1626) 37 He fetcht a grone,..And now vncar'd-for odours powr'd vpon her. 1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 109 A slatternly wife and eight or ten uncared-for children. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Africa 171, I have seen species of this plant in an uncultivated and uncared-for state in the interior districts of the Gold Coast. |