Unwelcomed

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1548.  W. Patten, Exped. Scotl., F 1 b. Yf they had kept pointment … they shoulde neyther haue bene vnwelcumed nor vnlooked for.

1590.  Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 8. At last … She askt … what vnwonted path Had guided her, vnwelcomed, vnsought?

1614.  Lithgow, Trav., P 1 b. The vnwelcomed Arabs inuironed, and inuaded vs with a storme of arrowes.

1651.  Vaughan, Olor Iscarus, Boet., I. met. i. 20. Life adds unwelcom’d length unto my dayes.

1768.  Hoole, Cyrus, III. 36. Doom’d again to banishment, Unseen, unwelcom’d, [he] swells this heart with anguish.

1836.  Keble, Lyra Apost., 182. How count we then lost eve and morn, The bell unwelcom’d, prayer unsaid.

1893.  Harper’s Mag., Dec., 26. The Great Love comes to you at last Unwelcomed.