unbefriended
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + befriended.
Adjective
[edit]unbefriended (comparative more unbefriended, superlative most unbefriended)
- Not befriended; lacking friends.
- [1889 January], Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere. II. Showing What was Born of the Great Idea.”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 18:
- I found him, lonely and unbefriended, the very next night after our talk, at the Dugald Delane's dinner.