Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not prayed for; not solicited reverently: with for.
  • Unsolicited; unasked.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Not prayed for.

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  • adjective Not prayed.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ prayed

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Examples

  • If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.

    Spurgeon: “If sinners will be damned …” at Ray Fowler .org 2010

  • If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.

    2010 May Archive at Ray Fowler .org 2010

  • Then Gunnar said, “All things that may be will we do for thee, so thou abidest here long; both dominion shall thou have, and our sister freely and unprayed for, whom another man would not get for all his prayers.”

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • I've seen their straight despairing lines cloven in snowfields under storm, and Indian file of famished natives, poor unprayed-for wanderers through blinding chill, seasoned castaways in search of home ports, which they've found at last, here on winter's verge between our houses and their trees.

    What Light There Is Bruce Schauble 2007

  • I've seen their straight despairing lines cloven in snowfields under storm, and Indian file of famished natives, poor unprayed-for wanderers through blinding chill, seasoned castaways in search of home ports, which they've found at last, here on winter's verge between our houses and their trees.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

  • The scheme was to take certain hospitals and to pray for the patients in particular wards, leaving other wards unprayed for, and then to tabulate and issue the results.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Ah! if one could but see clearly, with eyes purged from every remnant of earthliness, -- see as the angels do, -- the thick fog of unrisen and unprayed prayers clinging to the rafters of every empty church, we might well shudder in the clogging heavy atmosphere.

    Uncle Max Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

  • Then Gunnar said, "All things that may be will we do for thee, so thou abidest here long; both dominion shall thou have, and our sister freely and unprayed for, whom another man would not get for all his prayers."

    The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873

  • The day, the unwished for, the unprayed for, the most unwelcome day, like a challenged foe, had come; and with it new perils, tenfold risk of failure and disaster.

    Burl Morrison Heady 1872

  • And in a little while that soul, unprayed for, passed into its dark eternity.

    Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangilist Dwight Lyman Moody 1868

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