unsupplied

English

Etymology

un- + supplied

Adjective

unsupplied (comparative more unsupplied, superlative most unsupplied)

  1. Not supplied.
    • 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus:
      The whole number of blacks receiving religious instruction from these Christian bodies, making allowance for the proportion of white and colored included in the three thousand Wesleyans, is about twenty-two thousand--leaving a population of eight thousand negroes in Antigua who are unsupplied with religious instruction.
    • 1842, Joseph Sturge, A Visit To The United States In 1841:
      So long as this want is unsupplied, and the juvenile offender is contaminated by contact with the hardened criminal, the statesmen and those who control the legislatures of both countries, dishonor their profession of Christianity.
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