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English
Etymology
From un- + benefited.
Adjective
unbenefited (not comparable)
- Having received no benefit.
1843 October, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume LIV, number CCCXXXVI:The zealous citizens would suspend their avocations for a while, would repeat a reverential prayer as the holy men went by, and then return to the absorbing calls of business, not unbenefited by the recollections just awakened in their minds.
1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter VI, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, , →OCLC, page 95:Ought a possibly large number, Swithin included, to remain unbenefited, because the one individual to whom his release would be an injury chanced to be herself?