a. [UN-1 9.] Not provided with friends; friendless.
1513. More, Rich. III. (1883), 55. In how much she is now in the more beggerly condicion, vnfrended and worne out of acquaintance.
1554. Ascham, in Whitaker, Richmondshire (1823), I. 275. That [time] when I, unfreinded and unknowne, came first to your lordshipp.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., III. iii. 10. A stranger, Vnguided, and vnfriended.
1656. Jeanes, Mixt. Schol. Div., 5. And how should they, who were but … poor unfriended persons, escape … so potent … a malice.
1735. Pope, Lett., Wks. 1751, IX. 195. He will be a friend and benefactor … to your un-friended, un-benefited Nation.
1772. Test Filial Duty, II. 2. [I] cannot think that I am unfriended, unheeded.
1842. Rogers, Burke’s Wks., Introd. I. 10. Barry (afterwards the well known painter, then an unfriended son of genius).
1875. Howells, Foregone Concl., 209. A man more than ordinarily orphaned and unfriended.
absol. 1804. W. L. Bowles, Spir. Discov., III. 120. Who stood a guardian angel in distress To the unfriended.
b. Const. of.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., Prose Addit. 159. Fly Trayterous Æneas, fly vnfolowed and vnfriended of Elisa.
1725. Pope, Odyssey, IV. 631. Still on this desert Isle my fleet is moor’d; Unfriended of the gales.
1868. Lanier, Jacquerie, V. 18. That blade flew up … And left Lord Raoul unfriended of his weapon.
Hence Unfriendedness.
1821. Tales Landlord, Fair Witch of Glas Llyn, III. 325. This sublime unfriendedness.
