unharboured
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]unharboured
- simple past and past participle of unharbour
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unharboured (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Offering no harbour or shelter.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 15:
- And like a quiver'd nymph with arrowes keene
May trace huge forreſts, and unharbour'd heaths