ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
a. 1542. Wyatt, in Tottel’s Misc. (Arb.), 53. Complaint for true loue vnrequited.
1622. J. Hagthorpe, in Farr, S. P. Jas. I. (1848), 347. If from a friend some trifle we receiue,… We think ourselues ungratefull if we leaue These vnrequited.
1634. Bp. Hall, Contempl., N. T., IV. iii. Who can ever say, Lord, this favour I did to the least of thine, unrequited?
1741–2. Gray, Agrippina, 76. Benefits, too great To be repaid, Sit heavy on the soul, As unrequited wrongs.
1793. Tweddell, Rem. (1815), 48. Productive … of unrequited bloodshed.
1814. Wordsw., Excurs., VI. 109. Being crazed in brain By unrequited love.
1857. J. H. Newman, Serm. Var. Occas., xii. 261. The times of patience,… of humble, unrequited service.
1893. [see UNREQUITER].
Hence Unrequitedly adv., Unrequitedness.
1648. Boyle, Seraph. Love, xiv. (1659), 94. So far from enabling us by them, to Requite his Love,… it encreases the Unrequitednesse of it.
1867. Miss Broughton, Not wisely but too well, I. 108. Falling in love violently, and as it now appeared unrequitedly, with a man her superior in station.
