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

On some I look myself with dread, whilst others from me fly, But sadder still the uncherished soul when Fate's dark hour draws nigh; Oh! where my aching heart relieve when griefs assail me sore?

From The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems by Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich

We must go through life unloved and uncherished, bringing princes into the world, seeing happiness and love just beyond our reach all the time.

From The Man from Brodney's by McCutcheon, George Barr

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