a. [UN-1 8 c.] Not cared for or looked after; untended, neglected.
pred. 1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. i. § 4. Their Kings … left their owne and their peoples ghostly condition vncared for.
1775. Ash, Uncared..., not regarded;… ‘It was uncared for.’
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xxi. Circumstances which, in families of rank, are left uncared for, because it is supposed impossible they can be neglected.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., ci. The brook shall…, Uncared for, gird the windy grove.
1894. [Gertrude L. Bell], Safar nameh. Persian Pict., 40. Shaded by trees, somewhat desolate and uncared-for in appearance.
attrib. 1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., II. (1626), 37. He fetcht a grone,… And now vncar’d-for odours powr’d vpon her.
1856. N. Brit. Rev., XXVI. 109. A slatternly wife and eight or ten uncared-for children.
1887. Moloney, Forestry W. Africa, 171. I have seen species of this plant in an uncultivated and uncared-for state in the interior districts of the Gold Coast.
