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unpreˈferred, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Not advanced or promoted.
1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. 2 §1 Mony worshipfull men..were compelled..to lyff in greate penurie.., their dettes unpaied and their childeryn unpreferred. 1564Haward Eutropius x. 123 He..would not see them vnpreferred to honoures. 1572Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees, 1835) 370, I will yt Alice my wyf &..my doughters being vnmarried & vnpreferred shall haue their full portions of my goods. 1607Dekker Northward-Hoe iv. Wks. 1873 III. 45 A poore vnpreferd scholler. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. vi. §36 Of which order fourteen only could be found..which were unmarried, unpreferred to cures. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. 25 There is no such way to make a Scholar, as to keep him under while he is young, or unpreferred.
2. Not regarded with preference.
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