unbefriended
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“That is one thing sure; but I have seen this, Nanna: that the wicked is unbefriended in his death-pang.”
From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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 Goold Brown
Forsaken scene! how like to thee The fate of unbefriended worth!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
A higher boon than these his prayer demands: O grant me, Phoebus, calm content, Strength unimpaired, a mind entire, Old age without dishonour spent, Nor unbefriended of the lyre.
From Horace by William Tuckwell
It seemed to be his miserable destiny to rust away, useless, unbefriended, and forgotten.
From Seekers after God by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
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