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unreˈlieved, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not freed from some obligation.
1533Bellenden Livy v. xii. (S.T.S.) II. 189 The senate..wald nocht suffir him to be..vnrelevit of þe vote be him made to apollo.
2. Not provided with relief; not aided or assisted.
1599[see unransomed]. 1609Drayton Leg. T. Cromwell 23 It better should him please, Farre out of sight to perish here vnknowne, Then vnrelieu'd bee pitied of his owne. 1656Cowley Davideis iv. 446 If unrelieved seven days by Israels aid, This bargain for ore-rated Life is made. 1694F. Bragge Disc. Parables vii. 269 The thefts..of such, whose unrelieved poverty forced to be thus wicked. 1719J. Roberts Spinster 335 To leave the afflictions..of their..fellow-creatures neglected and unrelieved. 1757W. Wilkie Epigoniad ii. 49 Has..unreliev'd the stranger left my door? 1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art 25 That none of their distresses should be unrelieved. 1885C. E. Pascoe Lond. of To-day xxxii. 283 Many sufferers..are altogether unrelieved for want of funds.
3. Not freed from depressing or monotonous character; not diversified or varied (by something).
1764Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) IV. 397 Torments the more horrible in his..solitary state, unrelieved by the hope of glory. 1828Q. Rev. XXXVIII. 219 An unrelieved series of miseries and crimes. 1857Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. vii. 112 Sacrifice alone, bare and unrelieved, is..dead. 1882Floyer Unexpl. Baluchistan 248 An oval lake of rough boulders, quite flat, and unrelieved by tree or shrub.
Hence unreˈlievedly adv.
1876Meredith Beauch. Career xv, The poor are everlastingly, unrelievedly, in the abysses of the great sea. 1899Mackail Life Morris II. 41 Modern glass, some of it unpainted, the rest..unrelievedly hideous. |