unbeleaguered en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English beleaguer English -ed English beleaguered English unbeleaguered From un- + beleaguered.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not beleaguered.
We had but one gate unbeleaguered, the Chapel Gate, leading to Choisy and the north-east. Now were we straitened for provender, notably for fresh meat, and men were driven, as in a city beleaguered, to eat the flesh of dead horses, and even of rats and dogs[…]
1896, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife: