ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1628. Wither, Brit. Rememb., VIII. 1212. All those reeds on which thou hast depended, Will faile thy trust, and leave thee unbefriended.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Berkshire, I. (1662), 94. God and himself raised him to the eminency he attained unto, unbefriended with any extraction.
1767. Woman of Fashion, I. 134. I am … convinced of your Readiness to afford an Asylum to hopeless and unbefriended Innocence.
1800. Campbell, Scene in Bavaria, viii. Forsaken scene, how like to thee The fate of unbefriended Worth!
1842. Miall, in Nonconf., II. 1. Alone and unbefriended,… it set out on its course.
1877. ‘H. A. Page,’ De Quincey, I. iv. 72. Whilst he had every hardship to face that is most painful in unbefriended poverty.
absol. 1717. Killingbeck, Serm., xiii. 287. The Patronage of the Poor and Unbefriended.
