uncompanioned

(ˌʌnkəmˈpænjənd)

adj

1. literary not having a companion; unaccompanied

2. poetic characterized by the lack of a companion

3. archaic unequalled; matchless

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References in classic literature ?

My little friends, my lovers, we must part, And, like some uncompanioned pine that stands, Last of the legions on the southern slopes, I too shall stand alone, and hungry winds Shall gnaw the lute-strings of my desolate heart.

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Drawing on the experience of Poor Joanna, the urban narrator generalizes her isolation, commodifying the ascetic perspective for her urban audience: "In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong" (65).

Withdrawing from the nation: regionalist literature as ascetic practice in Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs

"In the life of each of us," she thinks, "there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day."