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English
Etymology
un- + requited
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Adjective
unrequited (comparative more unrequited, superlative most unrequited)
- Unanswered; not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid.
- Synonym: unreciprocated
1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in The Monastery. A Romance. , volume II, Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 196:Enough for me that I stand on the privilege of a free Scottish-man, and will brook no insult unreturned, and no injury unrequited.
1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter LXI, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company , published 1872, →OCLC, page 439:One of my comrades there—another of those victims of eighteen years of unrequited toil and blighted hopes—was one of the gentlest spirits that ever bore its patient cross in a weary exile: [...]
1912, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 27, in Miss Billy’s Decision:To her mind, a girl who would tell of the unrequited love of a man for herself, was unspeakably base.
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