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unreˈquited, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
a1542Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 53 Complaint for true loue vnrequited. 1622J. Hagthorpe in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 347 If from a friend some trifle we receiue,..We think ourselues ungratefull if we leaue These vnrequited. 1634Bp. Hall Contempl., N.T. iv. iii, Who can ever say, Lord, this favour I did to the least of thine, unrequited? 1741–2Gray Agrippina 76 Benefits, too great To be repaid, Sit heavy on the soul, As unrequited wrongs. 1793J. Tweddell Rem. (1815) 48 Productive..of unrequited blood⁓shed. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. vi. 109 Being crazed in brain By unrequited love. 1857J. H. Newman Serm. Var. Occas. xii. 261 The times of patience,..of humble, unrequited service. 1893[see unrequiter].
Hence unreˈquitedly adv., unreˈquitedness.
1648Boyle Seraph. Love xiv. (1659) 94 So far from enabling us by them, to Requite his Love,..it encreases the Un⁓requitednesse of it. 1867R. Broughton Not Wisely I. 108 Falling in love violently, and as it now appeared unrequitedly, with a man her superior in station. |