ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. Pref. Beyng in dede but one man alone, and vnregarded, but out of whoes mouthe came truthe.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, III. (title-p.), When Israel was … an unregarded Nation.
1670. R. Coke, Disc. Trade, 62. A poor and unregarded Village.
1726. Pope, Odyss., XVII. 612. Time steals away with unregarded wing.
1767. Wilkes, Corr. (1805), III. 100. That so many other publications…, full of the most deadly venom, should pass totally unregarded.
1813. Byron, Corsair, II. v. Each bears a prize of unregarded charms.
1883. Ruskin, Fors Clav., xc. 172. In the dormitory … on an unregarded shutter … she cuts her notch.
b. Const. by or † of.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xli. 18. We surmise him to be unregarded of God.
1612. W. Parkes, Curtaine-Dr. (1876), 17. The lawes of nature,… vassayled, obliterate and vnregarded by him.
1728. R. Morris, Ess. Anc. Archit., 13. Architecture is so unregarded by our modern Builders.
1805. Wordsw., Prelude, XIII. 278. God … loveth us, When we are unregarded by the world.
1884. trans. Lotze’s Metaph., 464. Many external stimuli, therefore, are unregarded by us.
Hence Unregardedly adv.
1685. Boyle, Salubr. Air, 12. Bodies … wont to be unregardedly compris’d under the confus’d name of Earths.
