uncherished

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I recalled lost relatives, uncherished in their time and therefore a source of belated, worthless grief, and first loves, unrequited and now sweetly recollected.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2016

For fifteen years, over what is, in fact, two generations in tennis, Williams has been a spectacular and constant and yet oddly uncherished national treasure.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2014

Have pity on thy child, who will be left In infancy, uncherished, and the ward Of unkind guardians; lay to heart the woes Which loss of thee would bring on him and me.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin

They might be snubbed, misrepresented to him, uncherished, unloved.

From Fated to Be Free by Ingelow, Jean

As she merged into womanhood, unpro- tected, uncherished, uncared for, there fell on her ear the music of love, awakening an intensity of emotion long dormant.

From Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there by Wilson, Harriet E.