unbenefited
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unbenefited (not comparable)
- Having received no benefit.
- 1843 October, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume LIV, number CCCXXXVI:
- The zealous citizens would suspend their avocations for a while, would repeat a reverential prayer as the holy men went by, and then return to the absorbing calls of business, not unbenefited by the recollections just awakened in their minds.
- 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter VI, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 95:
- Ought a possibly large number, Swithin included, to remain unbenefited, because the one individual to whom his release would be an injury chanced to be herself?
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