unregardedadj.

?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. ix. sig. i Nowe it shalbe a signe un to you that you deserue honour whan you be nat agreued to be unregarded.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. Pref. Beyng in dede but one man alone, and vnregarded, but out of whoes mouthe came truthe.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World iii. (title page) When Israel was..an unregarded Nation.

1660 A. Moore Compend. Hist. Turks 1231 Idleness, pleasure, and excess, were no small meanes for shortning his dayes: which he ended with obloquie, unregarded of his Subjects, and of few or none lamented.

1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 13 Architecture is so unregarded by our modern Builders.

1790 Town & Country Mag. Aug. 346/1 Not the meanest slave Goes unregarded of your royal care.

1814 Ld. Byron Corsair ii. v. 42 Each bears a prize of unregarded charms.

1919 Open Court Jan. 1 William Blake..lived unregarded by the public (which increasingly shunned him as the years went by, and..called him mad).

1982 M. Z. Bradley Mists of Avalon iv. iv. 685 Morgaine..is just a little thing after all, and the queen of an unregarded kingdom.

2006 N. Johnson Brit. 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic viii. 203 The flu was known to be a danger but was still largely unregarded as it struck Britain... Being ‘only’ flu meant it was much easier to argue the need to ‘carry on’.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres ii. lxx. sig. K^v Behind him all aloofe came pensiue on The vnregarded king, that drooping went Alone,..scarce lookt vpon.

1660 T. Salusbury tr. D. Bartoli Learned Man defended & Reform'd ii. 337 He, who living in his native Country, either un-known, or un-regarded, so that with much ado he drew to himself the eyes of some few.

1670 R. Coke Disc. Trade 62 A poor and unregarded Village.

1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 612 Time steals away with unregarded wing.

1767 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) III. 100 That so many other publications.., full of the most deadly venom, should pass totally unregarded.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) xii. 470 God..loveth us When we are unregarded by the world.

1837 Friend 7 Oct. 3/3 The evening approached unregarded.

1883 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera xc. 172 In the dormitory..on an unregarded shutter..she cuts her notch.

1922 Educ. Rev. June 15 The calm exquisite art of ‘The Age of Innocence’ goes comparatively unregarded.

2000 Church Times 15 Sept. 32/5 Endless unregarded angel faces along the string-lines below the clerestory.

1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 12 in Ess. Effects Motion Bodies..wont to be unregardedly compris'd under the confus'd name of Earths.

a1710 R. Bowes Pract. Refl. (1736) 29 Can we pass by unregardedly the Concerns of Heaven, when it evidently appears, that there are but few who arrive at that blissful Port?

1787 R. Hamilton Duties Regimental Surgeon II. xvii. 314 The militia practitioners..are similarly treated, and unregardedly discarded.

1912 Survey 7 Sept. 725/2 Should it happen that during the night the father rolled unregardedly, one or two children tumbled over the edge of the bed.

1995 R. Hoggart Way we live Now ii. 35 Such ideals can make people in those professions work unregardedly and without major injections of excitement week after week.