单词 | unfriended |
释义 | unfriendedadj. a. Not provided with friends; friendless. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [adjective] > friendless friendlessOE unfriendeda1535 unbefriended1628 lonely-hearted1863 a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 57/1 In how much she is now in the more beggerly condicion, vnfrended & worne out of acquaintance. 1554 R. Ascham in T. D. Whitaker Hist. Richmondshire (1823) I. 275 That [time] when I, unfreinded and unknowne, came first to your lordshipp. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iii. 10 A stranger, Vnguided, and vnfriended . View more context for this quotation 1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 5 And how should they, who were but..poor unfriended persons, escape..so potent..a malice. 1735 A. Pope Corr. Nov. (1956) III. 508 He will be a friend and benefactor..to your un-friended, un-benefited Nation. 1772 Test Filial Duty II. 2 [I] cannot think that I am unfriended, unheeded. 1842 H. Rogers Introd. Burke's Wks. Introd. I. 10 Barry (afterwards the well known painter, then an unfriended son of genius). 1875 W. D. Howells Foregone Concl. 209 A man more than ordinarily orphaned and unfriended. b. Const. of. ΚΠ 1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Pi Fly Traytor, Aeneas flye vnfollowed and vnfriended of Elisa. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 631 Still on this desert Isle my fleet is moor'd; Unfriended of the gales. 1868 S. Lanier Jacquerie v. 18 That blade flew up..And left Lord Raoul unfriended of his weapon. Derivatives unˈfriendedness n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > lack of friends friendlessness1669 unfriendedness1821 1821 Tales Landlord, Fair Witch of Glas Llyn III. 325 This sublime unfriendedness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1535 |
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