Word Meanings - UNBLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To deprive of blessings; to make wretched. Shak.
Related words: (words related to UNBLESS)
- DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation. - WRETCHEDLY
In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable. - DEPRIVER
One who, or that which, deprives. - DEPRIVE
1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath - WRETCH
wretch, fr. wrecan to drive out, punish; properly, an exile, one driven out, akin to AS. wræc an exile, OS. wrekkio a stranger, OHG. 1. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. "The wretch that lies in woe." Shak. Hovered thy spirit o'er thy - WRETCHFUL
Wretched. Wyclif. - WRETCHEDNESS
1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. Eat worms and such wretchedness. Chaucer. - WRETCHLESS
Reckless; hence, disregarded. -- Wretch"less*ly, adv. -- Wretch"less*ness, n. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Your deaf ears should listen Unto the wretchless clamors of the poor. J. Webster. - WRETCHED
1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. "To what wretched state reserved!" Milton. O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the