Both Uses of
unrequited
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Your unrequited rectitude is the only hold they have upon you.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- …I shall never find youthat it is not to be reached or lived-but what is left of my life is still yours, and I will go on in your name, even though it is a name I'll never learn, I will go on serving you, even though I'm never to win, I will go on, to be worthy of you on the day when I would have met you, even though I won't…… She had never accepted hopelessness, but she stood at the window and, addressed to the shape of a fogbound city, it was her self-dedication to unrequited love.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(unrequited) not returned (typically of feelings -- as in unrequited love)