Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not blessed; excluded from benediction; hence, cursed; wretched; unhappy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Archaic spelling of
unblessed .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word unblest.
Examples
-
This strait is come upon me for no other cause but because of Amjad and As’ad; and indeed this journey was unblest from the first!
-
Here, then, in two cases, is plagiarism, which may be defined as unblest theft -- the theft of what you do not want, and cannot use.
Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
-
Woe is thee, thy motherhood, thy marriage most unblest!
The Phoenissae 2008
-
Woe is thee, thy motherhood, thy marriage most unblest!
The Phoenissae 2008
-
Ah fair light unblest, in darkness sadly receding,
Poems and Fragments 2006
-
Ah fair light unblest, in darkness sadly receding,
Poems and Fragments 2006
-
And if ever our citizens must hear such lamentations, then on some unblest and inauspicious day let there be choruses of foreign and hired minstrels, like those hirelings who accompany the departed at funerals with barbarous Carian chants.
Laws 2006
-
Gaslights flared in the shops with a haggard and unblest air, as knowing themselves to be nightcreatures that had no business abroad under the sun; while the sun itself when it was for a few moments dimly indicated through circling eddies of fog, showed as if it had gone out and were collapsing flat and cold.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
-
We shall not be cast aside in contumely and unblest after all we have suffered.
-
Were in the sight of earth and seas and skies unblest.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.