unbefriended

Example Sentences

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To the westward was an immense open track before him, in which, if unbefriended by either sun or moon, he might wander until life were at an end.

From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. by Collins, David

Participles, or participial adjectives, reversed in sense by the prefix un; as, unaspiring, unavailing, unbelieving, unbattered, uninjured, unbefriended.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

He thinks I am poor and unbefriended, and he knows that I have no case.

From Fairfax and His Pride by Vorst, Marie Van

No one who cares for the past of the University should think without pity and friendliness of this lonely scholar, who in his lifetime was unpitied and unbefriended.

From Oxford by Lang, Andrew

He was genuinely sympathetic, especially towards the hopes and struggles of the young and the unbefriended.

From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine