unpensioned
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a word derived from
pension.
pensionnouna fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc..
Example Sentences
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Yet displaced and unpensioned, and sometimes the object of hostile attack, his literary supremacy was more absolute than ever.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
That and the story of an unpensioned Union veteran and the insistence on the word "son" seemed to me to set this story off as a little out of the ordinary.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration
I think that, had Johnson unpensioned been asked by the Ministry to write these pamphlets, he would have written them.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Thus it was that, unpensioned and in the shadow of disgrace, Uncle Matthew left the service of the National Board of Education.
From The Foolish Lovers by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine
Gay dies unpensioned with a hundred friends; observes that this opera was a piece of satire, which hits all tastes and degrees of men, from those of the highest quality to the very rabble.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Theophilus Cibber