unbefriended
adjEtymology From un- + befriended.
1
Not befriended; lacking friends.
- I found him, lonely and unbefriended, the very next night after our talk, at the Dugald Delane's dinner.[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:
- 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.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 54:
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