unsupplied

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adjective

Not supplied.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveunsupplied (comparative more unsupplied, superlative most unsupplied)

comparative more unsupplied · superlative most unsupplied

  1. Not supplied.

    So long as this want is unsupplied, and the juvenile offender is contaminated by contact with the hardened criminal, the statesmen and those who control the legislatures of both countries, dishonor their profession of Christianity.

    1842, Joseph Sturge, A Visit To The United States In 1841
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    The whole number of blacks receiving religious instruction from these Christian bodies, making allowance for the proportion of white and colored included in the three thousand Wesleyans, is about twenty-two thousand--leaving a population of eight thousand negroes in Antigua who are unsupplied with religious instruction.

    1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

    So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again; hopelessly eyeing the uncertain changeful height he could hardly hope to attain.

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Leg and Arm. The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London.”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 486

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