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unblessed (iou)



unblessed adjective & noun. . ME.
[from UN-1 + BLESSED adjective.]
A. adjective.
Not formally blessed, unconsecrated; deprived of or excluded from a blessing or benediction. ME.
M. Cable To a Russian emigre the home would be unblessed without the shrine.
Not blessed in fortune; unfortunate, wretched. Also, not favoured by or with something. ME.
Dickens Gaslights flared in the shops with a haggard and unblest air.
Unhallowed, unholy; evil, malignant. ME.
Coleridge I had vowed..To clear yon wood from thing unblest.
b. absol. as noun. Those who are not blessed; esp. the souls not in paradise. rare. E19.
unblessedness noun M16.