unreciprocate
English edit
Etymology edit
un- + reciprocate
Adjective edit
unreciprocate (comparative more unreciprocate, superlative most unreciprocate)
- (poetic) Unreciprocated.
- 1940, Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle, The Poetry Review - Volume 31, page 170:
- Although one would wish to share all the best with others, still the unpublished " reams and reams," the unrequited love, and the unreciprocate friendship have not been valueless.
- 1942, Richard Eberhart, Song and Idea, page 44:
- The silver belly sullied by slime, Kiss unreciprocate ;
- 2010, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Smeddum: A Lewis Grassic Gibbon Anthology, page 197:
- Undying loves, love unreciprocate!