Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having received no benefit, service, or advantage.

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  • adjective Having received no benefit.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ benefited

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Examples

  • A part time, unbenefited driver from the night trucking crew was given the desk.

    Newspapers: Dumb, Fat & Lazy? 2009

  • 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?

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • In less than two minutes it was all over — and Samuel (unbenefited by what I might have said) had gone downstairs again.

    The Moonstone 2003

  • Nor, from the eminently sympathetic nature of the African race, are the near friends of a family [38] unbenefited in a similar way.

    West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

  • 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.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

  • The men who die are the artist-aspirants of active belly and empty purse, who, failing to live to-day and this month, are unbenefited by any possible resurrection of to-morrow and next month.

    Again the Literary Aspirant 1902

  • The men who die are the artist-aspirants of active belly and empty purse, who, failing to live to-day and this month, are unbenefited by any possible resurrection of to-morrow and next month.

    Again the Literary Aspirant 1902

  • Monasticism in Gaul, and Heaven knows what besides, half a mile from the man and the library which could have supplied him with the best help to be got in England, unbenefited by either!

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • Swithin included, to remain unbenefited because the one individual to whom his release would be an injury chanced to be herself?

    Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

  • Tonge departed this life in 1680, unbenefited by the monstrous plot he had so skilfully devised; and in the same year Bedlow was carried to the grave after an illness of four days.

    Royalty Restored 1883

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