Unreturned

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not having returned or come back.

1589.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., IV. 428. The Chancellair … being yit unreturned oute of Lauder.

1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, XV. xxvi. They whom storme hath forced that way sence, Are drowned all, or vnreturn’d from thence.

1802.  Noble Wanderers, I. 131. Selisme was still unreturned:—… my suspicions gained strength.

1885.  W. Watson, Sonn., Soudanese, 13. Thousands that weep their warriors unreturn’d.

  2.  That is not reciprocated or responded to.

a. 1643.  S. Godolphin, Constancy, i. Love unreturn’d, howe’er the flame Seem great and pure, may [etc.].

1710.  Addison, Tatler, No. 250, ¶ 10. Supercilious Looks, unreturned Smiles.

1766.  Goldsm., Hermit, xvii. Dost thou … grieve for friendship unreturned?

1820.  Scott, Monast., xx. I … will brook no insult unreturned.

1896.  McClure’s Mag., VI. 492. The Grand Review passed through Washington; four hundred thousand ghosts of murdered men kept invisible march to the drum-beats, and lifted to the stained and tattered flags the proud and unreturned gaze of the dead who have died in their glory.