unprovided en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + provided.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not provided; not supplied or equipped; unprepared.
Originally unprovided with cabs, the first to acquire them did so during the Webb period in the 1890's, [...].
1941 December, “Notes and News: The L.N.W.R. "Special" Tanks”, in Railway Magazine, page 568:Perhaps it is an oversight on Mr Macgregor’s part that he has left these young infants quite unprovided for, and that some of their mothers are in danger of starvation […]
1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 1”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:Why, sir, you know this is your wedding-day. First were we sad, fearing you would not come; Now sadder, that you come so unprovided. Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate, An eye-sore to our solemn festival!
c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:[...] but there are other northbound trains, unprovided with any refreshments, on which this car's appearance would be most welcome, [...].
1959 March, “Talking of Trains: Fewer meals on wheels?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 121:Miss Tilney, understanding in part her friend’s curiosity to see the house, soon revived the subject; and her father being, contrary to Catherine’s expectations, unprovided with any pretence for further delay […] was at last ready to escort them.
1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:Mean while, if you are unprovided of a Lodging, I dare undertake, you shall be welcome to this Gentlewoman.
1697, Aphra Behn, The Adventure of the Black Lady:The shepheards God so wel them guided, That of nought they were unprovided, Butter enough, honye, milke, and whay, And their flockes fleeces, them to araye.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC: