Sample Sentences for
unrequited
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    For a long time we went everywhere together, but aside from that, my love was unrequited until Peter crossed my path.  (source)
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    Of course, it is also possible that her unrequited love and the attendant despair sapped her of her powers; that can happen.  (source)
    unrequited = unreturned
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    Was groundless, hopeless, unrequited obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?  (source)
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    Hassan slumps to the asphalt, his life of unrequited loyalty drifting from him like the windblown kites he used to chase.  (source)
    unrequited = unrewarded (not returned)
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    If he did not think the struggle just, nothing on earth could "compensate [for] the loss of all my domestic happiness and requite me for the load of business which constantly presses upon and deprives me of every enjoyment."†  (source)
    editor's notes: Today, unrequited is used much more commonly than forms of requite. You'll probably learn unrequited first. The prefix "un-" means not, so when it's not there, the meaning of unrequited is reversed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Leander and his never-to-be-requited love for Helene.†  (source)
    editor's notes: Today, unrequited is used much more commonly than requited, so you'll probably learn unrequited first. The prefix "un-" means not, so when it's not there, the meaning of unrequited is reversed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He gave her in requital of all things else which ye had taken from me.  (source)
    requital = return
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    Then is it not probable that this Englishman may be some one who, grateful for a kindness your father had shown him, and which he himself had forgotten, has taken this method of requiting the obligation?†  (source)
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    But, to have saved you requites itself.†  (source)
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    The coney was like honey And squealed our requitals.†  (source)
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    A woman must have broken his heart, they imagined, because surely no man would behave as he did for any reason but the suffering of unrequited love?  (source)
    unrequited = not returned
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    May God requite me if I came here frying to meddle, to stir up rancor.†  (source)
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    Requited love, I should say, for I've loved my father fiercely my whole life, and it changed nothing.†  (source)
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