unblessed adjective & noun. [ʌn'blɛsɪd, esp. pred. ʌn'blɛst] Also (now chiefly poet.) unblest [ʌn'blɛst]. ME.
[from UN-¹ + BLESSED adjective.]
A. adjective.
1. Not formally blessed, unconsecrated; deprived of or excluded from a blessing or benediction. ME.
■ M. Cable To a Russian emigré the home would be unblessed without the shrine.

2. Not blessed in fortune; unfortunate, wretched. Also, not favoured by or with something. ME.
■ Dickens Gaslights flared in the shops with a haggard and unblest air.

3. Unhallowed, unholy; evil, malignant. ME.
■ Coleridge I had vowed..To clear yon wood from thing unblest.
b. absol. as noun. Those who are not blessed; esp. the souls not in paradise. rare. E19.

■ unblessedness noun M16.

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