Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without reciprocation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
unrequited manner
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Examples
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By then, he was a pillar of the scientific establishment, a tall, striking figure with, as he put it, “two unrequitedly bushy eyebrows” and nostrils with “horse-hair bursts of an old Edwardian sofa.”
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Her bodyguard Guin, who has protected and loved her unrequitedly for fifty years, detests his beloved having to marry a man not of her choosing.
Pleasure-Jacquelyn Frank « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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But I spot a small logical error … AQA appears to be answering why fools fall unrequitedly in love, not in love at all.
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But I spot a small logical error … AQA appears to be answering why fools fall unrequitedly in love, not in love at all.
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By the time they reach senior year, Joy is starting to feel a nagging discomfort in their relationship: she still loves him as unrequitedly as always, but she cannot deny the way the relationship isolates her.
HH Com 180 Miss Snark 2006
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By the time they reach senior year, Joy is starting to feel a nagging discomfort in their relationship: she still loves him as unrequitedly as always, but she cannot deny the way the relationship isolates her.
Archive 2006-12-17 Miss Snark 2006
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By the time they reach senior year, Joy is starting to feel a nagging discomfort in their relationship: she still loves him as unrequitedly as always, but she cannot deny the way the relationship isolates her.
12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006 Miss Snark 2006
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There was no reproach in his shuddering sobs; only sorrow, only the desolation and eternal heart-ache of that which loves mightily, unrequitedly, and realizes that all it desires can never, never be.
The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��
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In this mood she sought out Arbaces, presenting herself as one loving unrequitedly, and seeking in sorrow the aid of wisdom.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909
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I have toiled for you most unrequitedly -- I have not had my reward.
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