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FRIENDLESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excluded from a society
Synonyms:
friendless; outcast
Classified under:
Similar:
unwanted (not wanted; not needed)
Derivation:
friendlessness (being without friends)
Context examples:
The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Nay, Henry, not by all; not forgotten by all; not friendless or forgotten.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Great God! If for one instant I had thought what might be the hellish intention of my fiendish adversary, I would rather have banished myself for ever from my native country and wandered a friendless outcast over the earth than have consented to this miserable marriage.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Have I not found her friendless, and cold, and comfortless?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Violent as he had seemed in his despair, he, in truth, loved me far too well and too tenderly to constitute himself my tyrant: he would have given me half his fortune, without demanding so much as a kiss in return, rather than I should have flung myself friendless on the wide world.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child—though equally dependent and friendless—Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained for me more of the cordiality of fellow-feeling; the servants would have been less prone to make me the scapegoat of the nursery.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
