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  1.  Not compensated by any gain or good.

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1774.  Burke, Sp. Amer. Tax., 23. To join together the restraints of an universal … monopoly, with an universal taxation, is an unnatural union; perfect uncompensated slavery.

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1787.  Ann. Reg., Hist. Eur., 81/1. Mr. Fox inferred that the revenue of this country would suffer a very serious and uncompensated loss.

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1802–12.  Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), III. 484. The vexation and expense incident to the production of it, is uncompensated.

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1898.  Educat. Rev., Oct., 277. Their story is one of almost universal and uncompensated disappointment.

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  2.  Not balanced or made up for.

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1789.  Phil. Trans., LXXIX. 283. The uncompensated electricity which is as essential to the charge as that which is in equilibrio.

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1835.  Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sci., iii. (ed. 2), 22. An uncompensated portion of the direct motion.

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  3.  Unrecompensed.

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1830.  Cobbett, Rur. Rides, 163. That gentleman remains uncompensated for his sufferings.

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1882.  Amer. Missionary (N. Y.), April, 100. The House of Refuge,… to whose interest he gave untiring and uncompensated time and attention.

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