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1. Not wept or mourned for; unlamented.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., II. ii. 65. Our fatherlesse distresse was left vnmoan’d, Your widdow-dolour, likewise be vnwept.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., I. xx. Had not that great Hart … piti’d thy wofull plight; There hadst thou lien unwept, unburied.
1637. Milton, Lycidas, 13. He must not flote upon his watry bear Unwept.
1725. Pope, Odyss., V. 402. A shameful fate now hides my hapless head, Unwept, unnoted, and for ever dead!
1766. Goldsm., Vicar, xxi. If you fall, though distant, exposed, and unwept by those that love you.
1805. Scott, Last Minstrel, VI. i. The wretch … shall go down To the vile dust,… Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.
1848. Buckley, Iliad, 413. Patroclus lies at the ships, an unwept, unburied corse.
2. Of tears: Unshed. rare–1.
1816. Byron, Parisina, xx. Those tears … in its depth endure, Unseen, unwept, but uncongeal’d.
