ppl. a. Obs. [UN-1 8 b, c.]
1. Unrequited; not repaid.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 21431. Þe dai es gan, þe dett vn-quitte, Þe bodi most beleue for it.
c. 1412. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 4177. Seruice vnquyt and murdre … Bifore al-mighty god auxen vengeaunce.
c. 1450. Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.), 308. That rebuke that he gaf me xal not be unqwyt.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xv. 41. Suppois the servand be lang vnquit, The lord sumtyme rewaird will it. Ibid., xlvii. 67. Vnquyt I do no thing.
a. 1542. Wyatt, in Tottel’s Misc. (Arb.), 64. Thinke not alone vnder the sunne Vnquit to cause thy louers plaine.
2. Not quitted or left.
1603. B. Jonson, Sejanus, V. v. We must pray you hold your Guards Vnquit, when Morning comes.
