Meanings
unharboured1
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of unharbour
unharboured2
adjectiveunharboured (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteOffering no harbour or shelter.
And like a quiver'd nymph with arrowes keene May trace huge forreſts, and unharbour'd heaths
Comus
1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 15
Origin
unharboured · verb
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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APA
unharboured. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unharboured
MLA
“unharboured.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unharboured. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unharboured,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unharboured.
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