un-pensioned

Updated: May 10, 2025

She had always had for Olive a kind of aroma of martyrdom, and her battered, unremunerated, un-pensioned old age brought angry tears, springing from depths of outraged theory, into Miss Chancellor's eyes. For Verena, too, she was a picturesque humanitary figure.

Henry James - The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)