unbefriended
English
Etymology
From un- + befriended.
Adjective
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.
- 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 54:
- But the Lord of Men allowed me to behold
an ancient sword shining on the wall -
for he often helps the unbefriended -
a weapon made for giants, there for the wielding.