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Participles, or participial adjectives, reversed in sense by the prefix un; as, unaspiring, unavailing, unbelieving, unbattered, uninjured, unbefriended.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

He had chosen to try the issue alone and unbefriended.

From Father Stafford by Hope, Anthony

No one who cares for the past of the University should think without pity and friendliness of this lonely scholar, who in his lifetime was unpitied and unbefriended.

From Oxford by Lang, Andrew

On that dreary waste of waters He had died, and left her mourning, All unguided, unbefriended.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard

It was impossible to leave a woman unbefriended, in that helpless position and in that solitary place.

From Armadale by Collins, Wilkie