unpurposed

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ purposed.

Adjective

unpurposed (comparative more unpurposed, superlative most unpurposed)

  1. Without purpose.
    Synonyms: aimless, goalless, purposeless
    • 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. , London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 32:
      If that Law did well to reduce from liberty to bondage for an ingratitude not the greatest, much more became it the Law of God to enact the restorement of a free born man from an unpurpos’d, and unworthy bondage to a rightfull liberty for the most unnatural fraud and ingratitude that can be committed against him.
    • 1917, Sinclair Lewis, The Job‎, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Part I, Chapter 5, §3, p. 60:
      He was distinguished from his fellows by the fact that each year he grew more aware that he hadn’t even a dim candle of talent; that he was ill-planned and unpurposed; that he would have to settle down to the ordinary gray limbo of jobs and offices […]
    • 1957, Muriel Spark, chapter 7, in The Comforters, London: Macmillan:
      ‘Your questions about Mrs Jepp, I can’t possibly answer them, ‘said Mervyn, looking at his watch but unpurposed, settling into his chair […]
  2. Not deliberate.
    Synonyms: inadvertent, undesigned, unintended, unintentional; see also Thesaurus:unintentional
    • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      When I did make thee free, sworest thou not then
      To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once;
      Or thy precedent services are all
      But accidents unpurposed.
    • 1640, William Whately, Prototypes, London: Edward Langham, The Thirteenth Example, pp. 199-200,
      the Lord will surely accept him and forgive his unpurposed offences and sinnes of meere weakenesse and frailty.
    • 1893, George Gissing, chapter 7, in The Odd Women‎, volume I, London: Lawrence & Bullen, page 188:
      It was written in very small characters—perhaps an unpurposed indication of the misgivings with which she allowed herself to pen the words.
    • 1948, Gilbert Murray, transl., Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus‎, London: George Allen & Unwin, page 33:
      O pitying strangers, since ye will not hear
      My old blind father, for some tales ye have heard
      Of his unpurposed sin, Oh, still give ear
      To a lost maiden, and accept the word
      I speak for his sake […]
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