Unrequited
[ʌnrɪ'kwaɪtɪd] or [,ʌnrɪ'kwaɪtɪd]
Definition
adj. not requited.—adj. Unrequī′table not requitable.—adv. Unrequī′tedly.
Edited by Caleb
Examples
- Penelope's belief that her fellow-servant had destroyed herself through unrequited love for Mr. Franklin Blake, was confirmed--and that was all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I should rayther ha' thought, to look at you, that you was a-labourin' under an unrequited attachment to some young 'ooman,' said Sam. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- My poor dear child, cried Miss Crawley, who was always quite ready to be sentimental, is our passion unrequited, then? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They were created mainly by tyrants; most of them by the unrequited toil of degraded and enslaved labourers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Edited by Caleb