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uncomforted

uncomforted

English

Adjective

uncomforted (comparative more uncomforted, superlative most uncomforted)

  1. Not comforted.
    • 1883, Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin, Miss Prudence:
      Shall you never go with any one; shall you and I, so near to each other, with so much to keep us together, go always uncomforted.
    • 1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige:
      And the two women mourned, uncomforted.
    • 1913, Arthur Christopher Benson, The Silent Isle:
      I hope that my philosopher may yet walk on the hills with me, if only for the sake of the love I bear the green valleys; and when I see the great stream passing silently from translucent pool to pool, overhung by rowans and sun-warmed rocks, I shall be glad to think that I have walked on the heights where it was gathered and drawn, and that I have heard it talk hoarsely to itself, cold and uncomforted, among the bleak and dripping stones.