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1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. clxx. 484. The lorde of the Towre was sore blamed … that he had lefte that place vnfortifyed and vnprouyded.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 467. The which Beare … finding the den vnfortified … entred into the same.
1709. Pope, Ess. Crit., 434. While their weak heads, like towns unfortify’d, ’Twixt sense and nonsense daily change their side.
1775. Burke, Sp. Concil. Amer., Wks. III. 64. Pouring down upon your unfortified frontiers a fierce and irresistible cavalry.
1849. Grote, Greece, II. xlvii. (1862), IV. 170. Samos remained … unfortified, deprived of its fleet.
fig. 1602. Shaks., Ham., I. ii. 96. It shewes … A Heart vnfortified, a Minde impatient.
1645. Hammond, Sinnes, 18. The will will be taken unfortified, and so … won to consent.
1705. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., III. Pain, 14. Persons of the tenderest Age, of the most unfortified Sex,… encountered the Fury of wild Beasts.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), V. 659. A mere pecuniary interest, unfortified by any admixture of sympathy.
1885. Manch. Exam., 4 Feb., 5/2. This opinion, unfortified by legal sanction.
