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English
Etymology 1
Verb
unharboured
- simple past and past participle of unharbour
Etymology 2
From un- + harboured.
Adjective
unharboured (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Offering no harbour or shelter.
1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: [Comus], London: [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, , published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 15:And like a quiver'd nymph with arrowes keene
May trace huge forreſts, and unharbour'd heaths