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1534.  More, Comf. agst. Trib., III. xiii. P v j. He woulde not haue lefte them vnbestowed, if he had foreknowen the chaunce.

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1581.  Mulcaster, Positions, xxxvi. (1887), 137. Is not that most dangerous … as the vnbestowed scoller by profession is?

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1622.  Bacon, Hen. VII., 216. Hee had now but one Sonne, and one Daughter vnbestowed.

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1794.  Wordsw., Guilt & Sorrow, lix. Comfort by prouder mansions unbestowed Their wearied frames, she hoped, would soon regale.

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