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unshepherded

  • a word derived from shepherd.
    shepherd
    noun
    a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.

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At Piacenza priests had been driven out, and the city left unshepherded for three years.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

They seemed to Him, not merely a mob of intrusive sight-seers, but like a huddled mass of unshepherded sheep.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander

Reid was not in camp; the sheep were running unshepherded upon the hills.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)

As armies, by no captain led, As flocks that feed unshepherded, Such is the fortune of a state Without a king and desolate.”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

He had little of the pastoral spirit; I do not think that he yearned over unshepherded souls, or primarily desired to seek and save the lost.

From Hugh Memoirs of a Brother by Benson, Arthur Christopher