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  1.  Not loved; not held in affection; unrequited with love.

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a. 1395.  Hylton, Scala Perf., II. xiv. (MS. Bodl. 592). Vnresonabli he werkiþ þt loueþ not þe souereyn good … vnsouȝt & vnloued.

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14[?].  in Rel. Ant., I. 71. Wo worth love unlovyd!

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1503.  Hawes, Examp. Virt., I. xv. Loue neuer vnloued for that is payne.

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1590.  Shaks., Mids. N., III. ii. 234. Miserable most, to loue vnlou’d.

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1645.  Milton, Tetrach., 9. A neglected and unlov’d race, the fruits of a delusive marriage.

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1671.  Mrs. Behn, Forc’d Marriage, V. iii. The embraces of an unlov’d maid.

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a. 1718.  Parnell, Hesiod, 253. Here Hesiod lies:… Unlov’d, unloving, ’twas his fate to bleed.

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1821.  Shelley, To Night, iii. Lingering like an unloved guest.

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1891.  Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xviii. The void of an unloved heart.

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  2.  Not pursued or felt as love.

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1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., III. vi. 53. You … haue preuented The ostentation of our loue; which left vnshewne, Is often left vnlou’d.

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